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As a parody of the highly popular Cabbage Patch Kids, the series featured gross-out and absurdist caricatures with a striking, cheeky charm that made them a marketing hit. As a result of this success, Topps Company would go dumpster diving in Hollywood, resulting in the 1987 film adaptation The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
Read MoreScream for Help is a sleazy, over-the-top, laugh-out-loud film that the Alamo Drafthouse programmer must’ve found at a VHS convention.
Read MoreA '70s low-budget vanity project from an aging cabaret performer sounds like something interminable and slack, released on 500 copies by some foreign VHS label, never to be seen again until showing up on Youtube in some smeary, unwatchable way. Remarkably, that's not at all what happened.
Read MoreKarate Kid: Legends doesn’t live up to the hype created by its predecessors; however it’s still a decent watch for Karate Kid fans, especially those with children they’ve introduced to the franchise.
Read MoreAgent of Happiness (2024), which screened at Indie Meme Fest 2025 takes place in Bhutan, a beautiful, small country with a unique policy: collecting and analyzing data on the happiness of its people.
Read MoreWhat does it mean that the industry of death photography is itself dying? Madan and Lahiri offer a wonderfully Asian response: Absolutely nothing.
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Read MoreSad Letters of an Imaginary Woman is a psychological horror at the level of identity, and part of a powerful wave of tense, feminist indie horror in South Asian cinema.
Read MoreDangerous Animals is director Sean Byrne’s newest film, coming ten years after his sophomore feature The Devil’s Candy.
Read MoreIn her follow-up to Past Lives, Celine Song crafts a visually polished rom-com that questions modern dating, ambition, and emotional connection—but struggles to ground its characters in real change.
Read MoreNeither movies or love are straightforward, which is why these kinds of romantic comedies tend to hit the hardest for me.
Read MoreEgoyan’s Exotica is fundamentally a story about grief, loneliness, and obsession. Although enduring loss is a universal experience, it is emotionally isolating.
Read MoreBrutalist architecture and the immigrant experience are on the surface, but the film is truly about homesteading, occupation, and the space buildings take from nature and other people.
Read MoreTom DiCillo’s Living in Oblivion (1995) is a dark satire of independent filmmaking that reveals within the nightmare of production lies the dream of creativity.
Read MoreKiller clowns are so back! Based on the successful novel by Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield has all the slasher tropes we know and love: killer opening scene, new town, dead mom, cute boy, questionable friend group. It plays the parts perfectly but is far from predictable as Frendo wreaks havoc on the remote town of Kettle Springs, Missouri.
Read MoreGoing Down, director Haydn Keenan’s scrappy DIY debut feature, is a feverish portrait of early 1980s Sydney and its chaotic punk underbelly.
Read MoreDeath is an inevitability, Alexis Franco affirms in his documentary Donde Los Árboles Dan Carne (Where the Trees Bear Meat). Shown during Austin Film Society’s annual Doc Days, Franco’s film is an intimately quiet portrait of the modern Argentine gaucho shaped by the slow destruction of climate change.
Read MoreRegardless of your relationship with the 90s, you will feel nostalgic for your own youth while watching Middletown, the third directorial collaboration between spouses Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, following the lauded Boys State (2020) and Girls State (2024).
Read MoreLove On A Leash exists in that space between a movie that shouldn’t have been released and one that should be seen by anybody with the patience for something truly weird.
Read MoreFor his tenth feature film (eleventh if you count his student featurette, Xiaoshan Going Home), Jia Zhang-ke has made what is perhaps his most ambitious project yet.
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