In their book The British B Film, writers Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane describe Bond of Fear, an underseen and worthwhile low-budget crime curio from…
The advent of digital cinematography has been both a blessing and a curse in the history of cinema. For one, it’s made film productions far…
It feels like many horror films in recent years begin and end in the pitch meeting. A kooky premise is introduced, funding is secured, and…
45 years after an environmental catastrophe has emptied the sea around Rio de Janeiro, the city’s main entertainment is a televised series of lethal parkour…
As InRO’s own Jake Tropila makes note of in his recent piece on the killer-shark-in-a-cave-movie The Devil’s Mouth, “shark movies have been seemingly omnipresent all year”;…
While Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007) are the immediate poster children for Eli Roth’s work as a horror director, his debut Cabin Fever…
Lou Diamond Phillips, now over 40 years into his acting career, has quietly become one of our more reliable screen performers. His big break came…
18 years after the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender and 12 years after the conclusion of its sequel series, The Legend of Korra, creators…
July marks the beginning of the second half of 2026, and Killer Shark Movies have been seemingly omnipresent all year, arriving in cinemas and on…
Hanna Bergholm’s second feature has had two lives. At its world premiere in the Berlinale competition, Nightborn was generally considered a low point in an…
The actor Alan Ritchson is a little bit of an anomaly as far as modern leading men go. Best known for playing the title role…
Since the dawn of cinema, the Western has conjured up an abundance of memorable, grizzled outlaws, often out to rob a bank or a train…
Credit where it’s due: Evil Dead Burn, the sixth movie in the franchise and third with a director other than Sam Raimi, offers a clever…
In a world completely in thrall to corporate IP and mega-budget computerized imperialist fantasies, we should be eternally grateful to festivals like Fantasia for platforming…
Writer-director Georgia Bernstein’s feature debut, Night Nurse, appears to fit within a poetic label once afforded to Claire Denis: this erotic thriller bears a sense…
William Kaufman makes movies like someone who saw the centerpiece bank shootout in Michael Mann’s Heat and internalized every beat of it, determined to bring new heights…
Young Washington, distributed by Angel Studios as part of a slate conspicuously timed for America’s 250th — including the forthcoming Revolutionary War flick Drummer Boy…
What becomes quickly apparent when diving into Izabel Pakzad’s directorial debut Find Your Friends is that by basically every metric you might generally judge a…
Given their inherently terrifying nature, it’s a wonder that killer cephalopods are not allotted much space in terms of cinematic appreciation. From their billowy, spectral…
The great Malcolm D. Lee’s new Peacock streamer Strung opens with an arresting scene of Laila Calloway (the potentially computer-animated actor and popstar Chloe Bailey),…
We’ve had plenty of animal attack movies over the years. Of course, Jaws is the granddaddy of killer sharks, spawning dozens of knockoffs of all…