SHELBY OAKS Review: Twisty Folk Horror. Kind Of.

Twelve years ago, YouTuber Riley Brennan went missing. When, after a long dry spell, a seemingly related tragedy lands on the doorstep of her sister Mia, the rescue mission restarts in debutante director Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks. Chris Stuckmann is one of the biggest names in the emerging landscape of video-based film criticism that has exploded over the last five or so years. Many of these film commentators are content to exist in the reaction/analysis space, but Stuckmann has made it clear that his dream is creation, and that dream comes to fruition with his first feature, Shelby Oaks. Produced by the veteran indie champions at Paper Street Pictures (The Artifice Girl, Scare Package, Trim Season), Shelby Oaks is an ambitious film whose reach occasionally exceeds its grasp, but…

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A note at the start that Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc (just “Reze Arc” going forward because wow, what a title) is entirely accessible to the curious who have not seen the show. Some ongoing threads are touched on but the character dynamics are easy to pick up on and as the title says, it’s an arc, it has its own beginning, middle, and end. And for those who have seen the show, Reze Arc is immediately very different from the first season of the anime adaptation of Tatsuya Fujimoto’s manga. Gone are the cinematic approach to atmosphere, ultraclean linework, and subdued colors. They’re replaced by a brighter, flatter, and rougher style that seeks to bring Fujimoto’s art to the screen in an…

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Wisit Sasanatieng’s galvanizing adventure fuses acrobatic action, silly comedy, and romantic melodrama into an intoxicating brew.

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Tereza Nvotová’s ‘Father,’ set to world premiere in Venice’s Orizzonti competition, is a haunting psychological drama about love, loss, and a moment that changes everything.

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Shamier Anderson, Golshifteh Farahani, and Shioli Kutsuna star in a series created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil, now streaming on Apple TV+.

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Samara Weaving, Karl Glusman, and Andy Garcia star in Shawn Simmons’ slam bang thriller.

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Located in California’s Central Valley, the sun-baked city of Bakersfield has a population of more than 400,000 souls and the metro area more than twice that number.   But in writer-director Ethan Coen (Fargo, Miller’s Crossing, Blood Simple) and co-writer Tricia Cooke’s (Drive Away Dolls) second entry in their self-described lesbian trilogy, Honey Don’t, Bakersfield exists somewhere between the real world and a fantasy noir one, split between the present and a fictional past drawn from the detective-noir of the mid 20th century.    As such, Coen and Cooke’s “Bakersfield” seemingly accommodates a population of several dozen people at most, the roads nearly empty, a place and time where modern niceties like cell phones, big-screen TVs, and computers are in short supply (if they appear at all). It’s a…

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Beast of War, the new film from writer/director Kiah Roache Turner (Sting, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead) is coming to theaters and on digital on October 10th, 2025, from the fine folks at Well GO USA.  Well ahead of everyone else, Well GO USA bought the rights to the flick back in February of 2024, before Beast of War even went into production in Malta. That’s how on top of their game they are.   When their boat is sunk while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a young troop of Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking life raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very…

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We have a new trailer and a theatrical release date for Alexandre O. Philippe’s 2024 documentary, Chain Reactions. The last film from the documentary auteur had a successful and award-winning festival run, and now it is time to spread that cheer among the masses.   Dark Sky Films is putting the film into cinemas, starting with New York and L.A. on September 19th, before going nationwide on September 26th. To entice you into the cinemas, they put out a new trailer today. Check it out below.      CHAIN REACTIONS   The Latest From Alexandre O. Philippe (78/52, MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN) Is a Cinematic Deep Dive Into the Lasting Impact of Tobe Hooper’s Slasher Masterpiece THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE   Featuring In-Depth…

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The upcoming thriller, The Wilderness, produced by actor Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil), is coming only in theaters on October 17th. Based on real-life experiences of its writer/director Spencer King, the trailer debuted yesterday morning. If you have not caught up with it yet, here is your chance.    A group of troubled teenage boys are kidnapped from their homes and taken deep into the unforgiving Utah desert, where they are forced into a brutal and secretive “Wilderness Therapy” program. With no contact with the outside world, their only way home is to earn the approval of the enigmatic program director—whose motives are far from therapeutic. As the line between rehabilitation and manipulation blurs, the boys must decide whether…

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