New horror flick The Gallows Act II from writer-directors Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing is a follow-up to the team’s 2015 The Gallows, which follows students who accidentally resurrect the past in a school play to horrific consequences.

Don’t Let Go, a new thriller from the producers of Get Out, centers around a series of phone calls a man receives from his niece following her death. In a context that bends space and time, the film explores our ability to change the future. Though l...

Funny Story is a dramedy co-written and directed by Michael J. Gallagher. It’s about Walter (Matthew Glave), an aging television star who agrees to drive Kim (Emily Bett Rickards) as he takes a road trip to Big Sur to see his estranged daughter, Nic ...

Aniara is a Swedish sci-fi feature film written and directed by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, based on the 1956 poem by Harry Martinson. Aniara takes place in a future in which Earth’s environment has been ruined to the degree that humanity is force...

Writer-director Storm Saulter’s coming-of-age sports drama Sprinter won Best Feature Film, Best Director, and the Audience Award at 2018’s American Black Film Festival, as well as Jury Winner for Best Narrative Feature at the 2019 Pan African Film Fe...

One of the most baffling and frustrating things that can happen to a writer is a pass on a script that everyone seems to love. Great characters, wonderful dialogue, sharp storytelling… So, do you want to option/buy/make this? Absolutely not.

If there’s any element of screenplay format that seems to cause confusion most frequently, it’s the parenthetical. I’m talking specifically about the words that appear between parentheses in the middle of dialogue. First, let’s look at how they shoul...

Irish writer-director Lee Cronin’s passion for horror films culminates in his debut feature film, The Hole in the Ground. Co-written with Stephen Shields, the story centers around Sarah O’Neill (Seána Kerslake), who flees an abusive marriage and move...