(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- Big League Concepts LLC and Afterburner Enterprises will present the world premiere of Ahead of His Time: The Bob Raskin Story on Sunday, October 25, 2026 in Monmouth University's Pollak Theatre. Admission is free. Doors open at 1:00pm, screening begins at 2:00pm.
(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival, a project of The Puffin Foundation, Ltd., will celebrate its 21st anniversary November 5–12, 2026 with a lineup of documentaries, narrative features and shorts focused on the festival's enduring theme, "Activism: Making Change." The eight-day festival will bring filmmakers, actors, activists, producers and community leaders to venues throughout Teaneck and Fort Lee for screenings, filmmaker conversations and special events.
(MAPLEWOOD, NJ) -- The Maplewood Strollers invite you to celebrate 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a screening featuring a LIVE shadow cast by The Cosmic Light Cabaret for the ultimate interactive movie experience on Saturday, November 7, 2026 at the Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts. Showtime is 7:00pm.
(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival (TIFF) has named filmmaker Luchina Fisher the first recipient of the Sandi Klein Creative Woman in Film Award, a new annual honor celebrating an exceptional woman whose work reflects the creativity, curiosity, integrity and commitment to social impact that defined Klein's life and her nearly two decades with the festival. The award includes a $1,000 grant. Fisher will receive the inaugural award at the TIFF screening of her film, The Dads, on Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 2:30 pm at Teaneck Cinemas (503 Cedar Lane).
English language remakes of Kurosawa's 1963 thriller High and Low are like buses: you wait half a century for one and then three come along at once. Following Steven Soderbergh's mini-series Full Circle and Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, we now get Ben Affleck's take on the setup in Animals. Unlike Soderbergh and Lee however, Affleck fails to credit Kurosawa, but make no mistake, this is just as much a remake of High and Low as Soderbergh and Lee's projects.
Over the past couple of decades, horror fans have grown increasingly weary of the prevailing Blumhouse/Waniverse school of quiet-quiet-bang scaremongering. Other Mommy, Blumhouse's latest production, at least deviates from this tired formula. Rather than quiet-quiet-bang, director Rob Savage has opted for bang-bang-bang.
Following 2021's Welcome to Raccoon City and a short lived 2022 Netflix series, this is the third attempt to reboot the Resident Evil property in just the last half decade. The decision to hand the IP over to Zach Cregger, of Barbarian and Weapons fame, initially seemed odd, as Cregger's previous work in the horror genre is so distinctive that he doesn't seem like the sort of filmmaker who would be happy to play in someone else's sandbox. But Cregger has made this reboot his own. Remove the title and you essentially have a standalone movie, one that thankfully doesn't rely on prior knowledge of either the original video games or the numerous screen adaptations.
The school classroom is a microcosm of society. It requires a strong leader in a teacher who can ensure everyone is pulling in the same direction. All it takes is one bad apple to disrupt the whole system. When I think back to my school days there were some teachers who knew exactly how to make us behave, and others who simply weren't cut out for the job. The latter's classes were anarchic, with half the class time devoted to trying to corral the little monsters who recognised weakness in their teachers. The sad thing is, most of these teachers would probably have been perfectly good teachers if they were allowed to simply teach rather than having to play a psychological cat and mouse game with budding sociopaths.
Kevin Macdonald's The Runner is the latest in a wave of thrillers in which a hapless protagonist is forced to become an accomplice to a crime, receiving orders from an anonymous villain over the phone. The formula worked quite well in Drop and Carry-On, but crucially, those movies were anchored by lead turns from capable actors in Meghann Fahy and Taron Egerton. Expecting a performer as limited as Gal Gadot to carry a movie on her own is asking for trouble, especially when the script is as shoddy as the one provided here by screenwriter Mark Gibson.
