RENOIR: Coming of Age in the Shadow of Grief

The sophomore feature from Japanese writer-director Chie Hayakawa (Plan 75), Renoir channels the filmmaker’s own experiences with childhood grief into a poignant tale of one young girl’s attempts to come to terms with her father’s impending death from cancer. While the subject matter may sound bleak, Renoir is suffused with

“Backrooms” Takes $10 Million In Previews

A24’s “Backrooms” liminal horror movie could make movie history this weekend. The Kane Parsons-directed feature film adaptation of Parsons’ viral found footage video series reportedly pulled in $10.4 million in Thursday night previews at the U.S. domestic box-office. That’s about on par with “Five Nights at Freddy’s” ($10.3 million) and