While the world and entertainment business tries to figure out how to get back to something resembling normal amidst the COVID-19 crisis you can count on one thing for sure -- genre fans aren't going to let a little 'ol pandemic get in the way of celebrating weird, wild and wonderful movies. Which is exactly why the Fantasia International Film Festival has gone fully virtual this year, allowing one of the world's biggest and best genre fests to keep up that celebration without putting folks in danger. And the first wave of films has arrived! Fantasia 2020 will …

A24 has released the first trailer for the upcoming drama Waves, which has drawn, well, raves out of its debut at the Telluride Film Festival. Written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, the film traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family, led by a well-intentioned but domineering father played by Sterling K. Brown. The impressive ensemble includes Hamilton alum Renée Elise Goldsberry as the family matriarch and Luce breakout Kelvin Harrison Jr. as their teenaged son. This trailer is pretty stunning, and it hints at some heavy emotional beats to come while keeping the …

Can you believe it's about that time again? Fantastic Fest returns to Austin, Texas for its fifteenth edition on September 9-16, 2019 and the first wave has arrived! As usual the genre fest is packed with exciting titles, including Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, Brad Anderson's Fracture, Jim Mickle's In the Shadow of the Moon and Vincenzo Natali's Stephen King adaptation, In the Tall Grass. Other standouts include some recent festival hits, including the Alien doc Memory: Origins of Alien, Koko-Di Koko-Da, Swallow and Ant Timpson's Come to Daddy, which I just …

North America's largest genre festival is at it again! The Fantasia International Film Festival returns to Montreal, Quebec this summer for its 23rd anniversary. And as always, it's boasting a wild, diverse lineup of genre cinema from around the world. The first wave of titles includes world premiere's for Malik Bader's crime thriller Killerman, starring Liam Hemsworth and Emory Cohen, and the first Critters film in nearly three decades with the debut of Critters Attack! 2019's FantasiaFest lineup also includes The Gangster, The Cop and The Devil, fresh off its Cannes premiere, the Lupita Nyong'…