It’s the time of year when even casual fans are looking for something spooky to watch, but where do you begin? Of course, all the streaming services have robust catalogs of some of the best that the horror genre has ever offered, but maybe you want to catch up with something from this year too?

Hallmark Movies Now is becoming Hallmark+ this month with exclusive new movies, original series, and more featuring beloved Hallmark stars—or, as Jonathan Bennett calls them, the Hallmark Cinematic Universe (HCU). That’s a lot of happily ever after. Bennett played the handsome love interest in Hallmark’s “The Christmas House” and its sequel, “Deck Those Halls,” and

While it is always a joy and privilege to travel for film festivals, there’s nothing quite like enjoying one from the comfort of one’s home city. That’s what makes the Chicago International Film Festival so special; for almost two weeks, the city’s artists, creatives, and cinephiles gather to watch a diverse array of films from

“The Fall,” now finally available on Mubi and getting a theatrical release from the company, feels impossible. It’s one of those films that’s richly steeped in the history of cinema while also expressing itself through a unique, special voice. Of course, no one got it. The story goes that, fifteen minutes into its TIFF launch,

Presented in the New York Film Festival’s Currents section, a complement to the main-slate selection that traces “a more complete picture of contemporary cinema with an emphasis on new and innovative forms and voices,” as per the programmers, all three films covered in this dispatch sit curiously between narrative and documentary traditions, challenging our ability

A beloved high school quarterback is fooling around with his secret girlfriend at her home. A sudden knock on the bedroom door startles them both. Petrified, the girl hustles her boyfriend into her closet, yelling, “Just a minute!” to her mother. The door opens, and a man in a scary mask attacks the girl, who