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.
Read MoreHome, Memory, and Machine-Made Myth: Odyssey: Returning Home
At just nine minutes long, Odyssey: Returning Home falls well outside the type of project we would normally cover at CineDump. It's a fully AI-generated short, and that fact brings all the usual caveats with it. Still, its brief runtime makes for an easy commitment, and credit where it's due: presented in 4K, it often looks about as good as AI-generated filmmaking currently can.
Read MoreSpider-Man: Brand New Day Swings High, Sticks the Landing Sometimes
Spider-Man: Brand New Day wants to be a reset, and for the most part it succeeds. For the first time since Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man, New York actually feels like a character again. The movie opens with a stylish montage set to TV on the Radio while iconic comic-book covers come to life onscreen, immediately establishing a sense of history and momentum.
Read MoreFrom Game to Grave: The Mortuary Assistant Arrives on Blu-ray
Video game adaptations continue to stumble their way through horror, but The Mortuary Assistant arrives with an advantage few of its peers possess: genuine affection for its source material. Based on Brian Clarke's cult horror game and directed by Slapface filmmaker Jeremiah Kipp, this Shudder Original has earned praise as a rare success story among horror game adaptations. Now arriving on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital from Acorn Media International, it gives genre fans another opportunity to experience one of 2026's more atmospheric and sincere horror offerings.
Read MoreThe Longest Running Crime Drama in New Zealand Strikes Gold Again with Series 12
After twelve seasons, most procedurals settle into a comfortable rhythm and simply coast. The Brokenwood Mysteries continues proving why it remains one of the most consistently entertaining detective dramas on television. Balancing eccentric humor, compelling mysteries, memorable characters, and the breathtaking backdrop of rural New Zealand, Series 12 delivers six more feature-length cases that remind viewers exactly why this cozy crime favorite has earned such a devoted international following.
Read MoreUnholy Night Delivers a Bloody Christmas Worth Celebrating
One of my favorite things about holiday horror is how easily the genre exposes the uncomfortable truths hiding beneath festive traditions. Nobody understands that better than writer-director Michael Gabriele, whose Unholy Night takes the stress, resentment, expectations, and chaos of a family Christmas Eve and cranks everything up to undead proportions. The result is a funny, atmospheric, and surprisingly heartfelt zombie Christmas movie that feels destined to become a seasonal favorite for horror fans.
Read MoreA Haunted House Built on Generational Wounds: Ancestral Beasts
Tim Riedel's Ancestral Beasts isn't interested in cheap scares or easy answers. This psychological horror debut digs into mental illness, family dysfunction, and intergenerational trauma, wrapping them inside a haunted house story that becomes increasingly unsettling the deeper it goes. While the film occasionally struggles with tonal inconsistency, it ultimately delivers a memorable and genuinely creepy horror experience anchored by a strong central performance from Morgan Holmstrom.
Read MoreAttack on Paradise May Be Fantasia's Ultimate Crowd-Pleaser
There was a certain kind of action movie that seemed larger than life when you were a kid. You'd walk through the living room for thirty seconds while your dad, your uncles, or their friends were watching some late-night action classic, catch a glimpse of a gunfight or a fistfight, and spend years imagining the rest of the movie in your head. It was probably louder, bloodier, and more dangerous in your imagination than anything that was actually on screen.
Read MoreValley of the Horntak: Beautiful Woods, Bumpy Journey
I'm not usually a folk horror guy, but Valley of the Horntak had a couple things working in its favor before the lights even went down. First, the premise of a missing child, a strange cult, and fungus-fueled nightmares sounded intriguing enough. Second, Vernon Wells is in it.
Read MoreDead Media Celebrates Physical Media While Summoning Its Ghosts
There was a time when movie night meant more than endlessly scrolling through streaming menus. It meant debating what to watch with friends, digging through shelves, hunting for hidden DVD Easter eggs, and getting lost in bonus features that sometimes felt more interesting than the movie itself. Joseph Scrimshaw's Dead Media understands that feeling completely.
Read MoreParanormal Investigations Is a Loving Tribute to Ghost Hunting TV
Found footage horror and paranormal reality television have always shared the same DNA. Both ask audiences to suspend disbelief and buy into the idea that the camera captured something it was never supposed to see. Raymond Wallace's Paranormal Investigations understands that connection immediately, framing itself as the recovered final episode of a long-running ghost hunting series whose cast and crew disappeared while investigating a notorious Southern "Hell House."
Read MorePinocchio Unstrung: The Twisted Childhood Universe Finally Finds Its Heart
I'll admit it: Disney's original Pinocchio scared me as a kid. Maybe that's why I was so excited for Pinocchio Unstrung. As someone who caught Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare in theaters, I was curious to see where Rhys Frake-Waterfield's twisted childhood universe would go next.
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