Later this year, Beyond Fest is going beyond Los Angeles to the Windy City for Beyond Fest Chicago. The event runs from April 2nd to the 5th for four days of all-killer-no-filler cinematic carnage. The Music Box Theater is the home for the combined forces to create Beyond Chicago. Presented
With a career beginning in the 1960s, Meiko Kaji became a Japanese screen legend. From playing a Yakuza leader in Blind Woman's Curse to playing the tough, betrayed heroine of Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, or embodying vengeance as Yuki in Lady Snowblood and its sequel, Lady Snowblood: Love
I watched Dust Bunny as part of Beyond Fest at American Cinematheque. You can check out the full schedule here. Every once in a while, a movie idea comes out of nowhere and makes you go "damn, why didn't I think of that?". In the 2020's there have been a couple, mixing vampires and moonshine
I watched Shelby Oaks as part of Beyond Fest at American Cinematheque. You can check out the full schedule here. Shelby Oaks is a wild movie through and through. It's definitely creepy and the story behind how the movie was made isn't creepy, but still just as improbable. It comes from
The world's biggest genre-film festival Beyond Fest has finally announced its full lineup. It includes 8 world premieres, 5 North American premieres, 9 US premieres, 25 West Coast premieres, and 90 feature films in total. The great thing about Beyond Fest is that they get the filmmakers in
Are you ready for Beyond Fest 2025? It's only the greatest genre film festival on the planet. To celebrate this year, they're going back over the 30-year career of Guillermo del Toro and his films. Está Vivo: The Gods and Monsters of Guillermo del Toro is the most complete retrospective of
If you've never heard of Beyond Fest, you should. It's the biggest and most attended genre film festival in the US. It returns for its 12th outing with 83 features across 15 days. They have 13 world premieres, 4 international premieres, 3 U.S. premieres, 26 West Coast premieres, and 100+
My Hero Academia is one of the biggest anime franchises in the world right now. You can tell by the sheer length of the ongoing anime series by studio Bones (Wolf's Rain, Fullmetal Alchemist, Mob Psycho 100) right now, which as of this writing stands at 154 episodes (plus nine OVAs) spanning
At the end of last week's episode of The Pitt, we finally learned what happened to cause Westbridge to shut down. As PTMC preemptively secures itself from a possible cyberattack, the younger doctors and nurses get a trial by fire on how their superiors did their jobs "in the 1900s." With
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
Cultural phenomena like Elvis Presley simply don't come along very often. As a follow-up to his 2022 Elvis Biopic, energetic director Baz Luhrmann unearthed and restored never-before-seen footage of Presley, including 45 minutes of audio where he discussed his life and work, and made all of
