Tina Romero, daughter of legendary horror filmmaker George A. Romero, makes her directorial debut with her own take on the zombie genre in Queens of the Dead. This horror comedy follows a group of drag queens, DJs, drug dealers, and club kids who have to fend for themselves as zombies flood the streets of Brooklyn…
We’re kicking off the Fantasia International Film Festival with a self-described “transgender holiday film,” directed and co-written by Alice Maio Mackay. There’s nothing like a good Christmas slasher in the middle of a humid Montreal July to offer a little bit of escapism. Carnage for Christmas is the first film in Fantasia’s ‘Underground’ lineup in…
All of Us Strangers is the Sufjan Stevens song of movies. It’s sappy and tender and very gay and very sad. It’s full of ghosts. It’s haunted by loneliness and love. Some may find it a bit too sentimental, like the 80s power ballads scattered throughout its soundtrack. But I found that it balances those…
When I was a teenager, a movie like Bottoms wouldn’t have existed. I was 12 years old when Superbad (2007) came out, and I remember sneaking in to see it in theatres with one of my best friends. I’ve seen Superbad more times than I can count, and it still feels like one of the…