The world's biggest and best genre film festival, Beyond Fest, is back for 2026. The Fest includes 10 WORLD PREMIERES, 1 INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE, 4 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERES, 7 U.S. PREMIERES, 28 WEST COAST PREMIERES, 81 FEATURE FILMS in all. Beyond Fest runs from September 23rd to October 6th in Los
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Beyond Fest is giving M. Night Shyamalan fans a pretty incredible reason to head to Los Angeles this September. The genre film festival has announced Night Visions: The Shock and Awe of M. Night Shyamalan, a massive retrospective celebrating the filmmaker’s career with 12 feature films spanning
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 by
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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 Song
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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 like
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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 YouTube
DC Studios is branching out. Instead of following the normal comic-book movie playbook, we're getting a movie based on the Batman villain, Clayface. Clayface is an interesting look at what we can do when a comic-book villain gets humanized a bit. The film stars Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, an
"The Debut" turns a comedy that pokes fun at the sincerity of the local stage and elevates it to a fascinating character study of a woman on the edge. While still being hilarious.
The 2026 reboot of Magic Knight Rayearth shows us that friendship is quite powerful in the magic department in Ep. 4 "Our Battle". It's a lesson from My Little Pony, but it's quite applicable to this anime too. Our trio of heroines will need that power, since this is their bloodiest battle to date.
