A hooded figure wearing a skeleton mask holds a shushing finger to its mouth in front of a snowy backdrop. Credit: Image by Federico Napoli The horror genre is no stranger to the label “most ...

We might be forgetting one or two but it’s been a fair minute since Will’s Pub has hosted film screenings … maybe going back to an early run of Uncomfortable Brunch. Some dedicated film fiends are ...

There are few things that the horror genre loves more than a creepy doll. It loves them even more when they're in puppet form; epitomized by Dead Silence, scary movies adore capitalizing on viewers' ...

Ninety percent of the world’s goods are exchanged through the global shipping trade, out of sight and out of mind on the forgotten spaces of the sea. Filmmakers Allan Sekula and Noël Burch posit that ...

At some point in the past, the film techniques and approaches fans take for granted now were bold and innovative. A new film festival in Charlottesville this weekend will focus on filmmakers who are ...

Often turning her lens on women, she emerged as one of independent cinema’s fiercest proponents on the West Coast. By Sean Malin This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. In searching for a concise definition of experimental cinema ...

The Big Muddy Film Festival of Southern Illinois University is a student-run international film festival that celebrates emerging and accomplished filmmakers and is dedicated to encouraging grassroots ...

When it comes to movies, I think I've seen just about everything the medium has to offer. I've seen nearly 6,000 films. I've seen features, shorts, experimental cinema. I've seen bands perform a ...