Ten years after Deathgasm earned its place as a cult horror-comedy classic, Deathgasm II: Goremageddon arrives with one goal: to be bigger, bloodier, louder, and even more ridiculous than its predecessor. Somehow, against all odds, writer-director Jason Lei Howden manages to pull it off. This is not a sequel interested in dialing anything back.
Read MoreDating Is the Apocalypse in Floating Carousel's Hilariously Twisted New York Odyssey
Modern dating has become one of cinema's favorite punching bags, but few films capture its specific absurdities quite like Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers' Floating Carousel. On the surface, it's a dark comedy about a collection of twenty-somethings stumbling through New York City's increasingly bizarre dating landscape. Underneath, it's a sharply observed portrait of loneliness, transactional relationships, and the strange social gray areas that define modern romance.
Read MoreBabystar: Growing Up in Public Is a Nightmare
Despite being marketed as a drama, Joscha Bongard's Babystar plays like a horror film in every sense of the word. There are no masked killers, supernatural threats, or sudden shocks lurking around corners, yet the film generates a constant sense of unease that never truly lets go. Its terror comes from something far more recognizable: a childhood sacrificed for content, a family dynamic warped by profit, and a teenager slowly realizing that the life she has been living was never really hers to begin with.
Read MoreCrack, Cash, and Chaos: Heat Score Is Pure Underground Mayhem
One of the biggest mistakes a movie like Heat Score could make would be pulling its punches. Thankfully, directors and brothers Robert and Devin Burkosky never even consider it. Part crime comedy, part exploitation throwback, and part fever dream tour through Edmonton's seedy underbelly, Heat Score feels like it landed somewhere between a Troma production and the wave of retro genre parodies that have become increasingly popular in recent years.
Read MoreFrom Hollywood Dreams to Monster Screams: Minions & Monsters on Physical Media
I'll admit it: my two-year-old is obsessed with Minions. Maybe it's the gibberish language, maybe it's the slapstick chaos, or maybe it's the endless stream of Minion content scattered across the internet. Whatever the reason, he loves them.
Read MoreIsabel Hagen Strikes a Perfect Note in On a String
There are funny movies, and then there are movies that catch you so completely off guard that you find yourself laughing harder than you have in months. On a String belongs firmly in that second category. Written, directed by, and starring Isabel Hagen, the Tribeca Best Screenplay winner follows a Juilliard-trained violist attempting to navigate New York's classical music scene while still living at home and trying to figure out what adulthood is supposed to look like.
Read MoreLockjaw Is the Most Awkward Hangout Movie You’ll See This Year
There's a version of reality where Lockjaw becomes one of those beloved cult indies everyone swears they discovered first. The kind of movie that would have had its trailer playing before every Miramax release in the late '90s until it slowly wormed its way into the consciousness of a certain type of film fan. Watching Sabrina Greco's debut feature, it's hard not to imagine it existing in that timeline.
Read MoreMurder, Mystery and Lucy Lawless: My Life Is Murder Series 5
I'll watch pretty much anything Lucy Lawless appears in. From her iconic turn as Xena: Warrior Princess to scene-stealing work in Spartacus and beyond, she has always had a magnetic screen presence. Somehow, despite being on the air since 2019, My Life Is Murder slipped under my radar.
Read MoreAlley Cats: Ricky Gervais Turns a Pack of Strays Into an Existential Sitcom
Ricky Gervais has spent decades building comedy out of uncomfortable truths, awkward conversations, and characters who say exactly the wrong thing at exactly the right time. Alley Cats takes that formula and filters it through a gang of feral cats roaming the streets, resulting in a strange, frequently hilarious adult animated sitcom that feels like stand-up comedy disguised as a cartoon. At first glance, the premise almost seems too gimmicky.
Read MoreCookie Queens Finds the Humanity Behind America’s Most Famous Cookie Sale
Cookie Queens opens with "Cookie Road" by The Julie Ruin blasting over the introduction, immediately establishing the film's playful punk-rock energy. From there, director Alysa Nahmias takes audiences behind one of America's most beloved traditions: Girl Scout Cookie season. What begins as a charming look at four ambitious young girls competing to become top sellers gradually reveals itself as something more thoughtful, a coming-of-age documentary about ambition, family expectations, and the complicated realities of growing up.
Read MoreLate Fame: Kent Jones Finds Beauty in New York's Lost Dreamers
What begins as something resembling Dead Poets Society quickly reveals itself to be something altogether more contemporary: a sharply observed examination of rich kid faux intellectualism, artistic posturing, and the people who confuse proximity to art with the act of creating it. Kent Jones' Late Fame is sweet, smart, funny, and occasionally scathing. Adapted by Samy Burch from Arthur Schnitzler's novella, the film follows Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet whose long-neglected work is suddenly rediscovered by a collective of young creatives calling themselves The Enthusiasm Society.
Read MoreI Want Your Sex Is a Neon-Drenched Celebration of Desire and Bad Decisions
After more than a decade away from features, Gregg Araki returns with I Want Your Sex, a neon-soaked psychosexual comedy-thriller that feels like a filmmaker completely uninterested in playing it safe. Following Elliot, a drifting twenty-something who lands a job working for provocative artist Erika Tracy, the film dives headfirst into questions of desire, power, self-discovery, and the increasingly complicated ways young people relate to intimacy in the digital age. The result is a big, wonderful, horny cartoon.
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