Room Taken is a moving film about survival and acceptance that has stuck with me vividly since my first viewing....

There is a tremendous honesty presented in Live Action Short Film contender Will I See You Again?, a powerful story...

The Wicked Witch of the West has been a part of cinematic iconography for a solid 85 years. I remember...

Writer/director Jamie O’Rourke’s IFTA-winning film CALF is a gut-wrenching film from way out in the countryside, a place where the...

You can almost hear the wind whistling through the darkness in Nadia Hallgren and Jamie-James Medina's stunning and emotional animated...

Revisiting Azazel Jacobs' His Three Daughters felt like its own special reunion. I saw his latest at the Toronto International...

What make a story a Christmas story? Perhaps we have been too focused on the tinsel, the lights, and the...

We have all talked to ourselves in order to amp up our own confidence. Sometimes we do it in the...

SANTA BARBARA, CA - The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is honored to announce that two cinema icons, Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce, will...

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story brought a notorious murder back to our collective cultural consciousness.  Audiences may not...