The Passenger, or La Pasajera, is a Spanish-language horror flick based on a screenplay written by Luis Sánchez-Polack. The film was directed by Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez.

Photo courtesy of Allyson Riggs/SXSW. Check the hashtags #SXSW #SXSW2022 and #SXSW22 to see what kinds of things have been going on at the first week of a massive cultural event we know as SXSW. It just wrapped, and the remaining three days are expec...

The Tiger Rising had a one-year Covid bump, which serendipitously puts it precisely in the Asian zodiac Year of the Tiger for its release. Based on Kate DiCamillo’s award-winning 2001 children’s book of the same title, the film was ten years in the m...

I was fortunate to chat with director Christopher Smith on All Hallows' Eve about his spooky new film, The Banishing, right before the London-based filmmaker took his two young children out trick-or-treating; his nine-year-old going as Joaquin Phoeni...

I have a Zoom hangout with Justin Chon the day after Category 4 Hurricane Ida makes landfall to New Orleans, where he shot his third feature film, Blue Bayou. It’s produced by MACRO’s Charles D. King and Poppy Hanks, as well as others. The tear-jerke...

Shyree Mezick is an Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) transracial adoptee who’s yet to find out her exact biological make-up. Mezick became a casting agent in Los Angeles because she wants to “position othered others into their own stories, ...

The dead of winter has a way of creating gloom, anxiety and profound isolation; in other words, exactly the atmosphere of contained horror feature The Lodge (2019).

Disclaimer: I’m a fan of Neil Marshall’s prior work; specifically, the feature The Descent. For me, it’s brutal in all the right ways.

Benjamin Cavell and the team behind the CBS All Access limited series The Stand got to shelter in place for the pandemic by the skin of their teeth. They wrapped in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 11, 2020 — mere hours before much of North Ameri...