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Most teenagers learn through a clumsy first kiss or a shaky confession that vulnerability can be terrifying. But what happens when the very thing you crave is also the force trying to destroy you? Writer-director Adrian Chiarella’s powerhouse debut Leviticus turns that question into a haunting, genre-blending coming-of-age story set in a tiny Australian town.

 By Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine, March 6, 2026 In the shadowy laboratories of cinema, few creatures have endured as iconically as the Bride of Frankenstein—Elsa Lanchester's hissing, electrified vision from 1935, a character who barely spoke yet screamed volumes about creation, rejection, and female agency. Now, in Maggie Gyllenhaal's audacious sophomore feature The Bride!, that

In the daring directorial debut MIMICS, hitting theaters nationwide on February 13, Kristoffer Polaha steps behind and in front of the camera to deliver a genre-bending blend of fun, fright, and romance. The film follows struggling impressionist Sam Reinhold (played by Polaha himself), whose desperate pact with a wicked, strings-attached puppet named Fergus promises stardom—but