CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
Movies
Movies at Catastrophe Ballet covers European auteur cinema, intelligent genre film and underground works that share the site’s fascination with the dark and the strange. Coverage tracks reviews, festival news and releases drawn from a curated network of film press.
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Review: Azrael: Angel of Death Delivers Dialogue-Free Action Horror
LOCKBOX Review: Uneven Supernatural Horror Movie with TWIN PEAKS DNA
Sound And Vision: Yoshihiro Nishimura
THE BIG COMBO 4K UHD Review: Restored 1955 Classic, Where Information Is Essential
WERWULF Official Trailer: Of Robert Eggers, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Medieval Wolves
The Current Debate | AI and Cinema, or: What Is a Film?
Making A Splash: Remembering Hockney Onscreen
Ceremony TV, All The Micro-docs About Corruption, Greed, And True Crime You Need, Free on YouTube
Karlovy Vary 2026 Exclusive: MY FRIEND THE PORN STAR Poster Premiere
CAMP Review: Unraveling the Divine Contradictions of Mourning
Tribeca 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews, Good and Otherwise
THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER: Official Trailer & Poster For Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Period Murder Mystery
Neuchatel 2026: Genre Fest Kicks Off Next Week
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS Official Teaser Trailer: First Look at the 4K Restoration
Black Swan at the A.R.T: an unearthly medley of film, musical theatre and ballet
The Last Viking review – Danish dark comedy is a bonkers ride
Dances With Films 2026 Review: LITTERMATES, When Safety Is Not Sufficient
UNIDENTIFIED Review: Making Sure the Victim Receives Justice
Chattanooga 2026 Review: NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, Atmospheric Sci-Fi Horror Suffers from Narrative Ambiguity
LEVITICUS Review: Queer Horror Becomes Frighteningly Literal
ROSE OF NEVADA Review: Ancient Ways That Still Rule Us All
THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD Review: Brutality and Sweetness Battle to Affirm the Importance of Stories
SLASHERCISE: Retro-Fitness Slasher Sheds Pounds, Violently, on BloodStream This July
Effi O Blaenau review – stealthy socialist propaganda
Rushes | DOJ Approves Paramount-Warners Merger, Wim Wenders Withdraws “Wrong Move,” Remembering Marjane Satrapi
The Lost Art of Pixar Short Films
VIRGINIA WOOLF’S NIGHT & DAY Review: Frothy and Funny Modernization of a Lesser-Known Classic
Lesbian Space Princess review – a Sapphic sci-fi romp
THE NEON DEMON Retrospective: Still More Than Skin Deep
Tribeca 2026 Review: ONLY WHAT WE CARRY, More Poetic Than Profound
Art for Fart’s Sake: In Praise of “South Park”
Now Playing: LEVITICUS Queer Horror Terrifies, THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD Tells a New Story
Tribeca 2026 Review: In DEATH BOOM, Eli Roth Narrates a Brutally Honest, If Not Brutal, Exposé of the Funeral Industry
Tribeca 2026 Review: SKATEBOARDING IS NOT FOR GIRLS, Bittersweet Tale of Girlhood Realities
Movie Poster of the Week | Tony Stella in Memoriam
Sound And Vision: John Carney
CHARADE Blu-ray Review: Spies, Danger, Laughs and Fashion an Eclectic Criterion Mix
Tribeca 2026 Review: KILLING CASTRO, Neat Thriller Based on Incredible Real Story
Tribeca 2026 Review: ACT ONE Turns Acting Class Into Unsettling Power Struggle
Disclosure Day | The War Of The Worlds | Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | E.T.
Opening This Week: THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, LEVITICUS, THE VOICES OF OUR MOTHER
Criterion in September 2026: THE SECRET AGENT, Richard Linklater’s NOUVELLE VAGUE, THREE FILMS BY LEOS CARAX
Echoes: 12 Wide Releases That Could Define the Second Half of 2026
MUFFLED Teaser: Found Footage Horror Makes Its World Premiere at Dances With Films on June 27th (Exclusive)
Tribeca 2026 Review: ICONOCLAST, Impressive Debut Thriller About (Ir)reality of Love
PACIFICO: Spanish Language Sci-fi Creature Feature Will Premiere at Bifan
Friday One Sheet: NIGHT NURSE
Tribeca 2026 Review: HALLOWARRIOR, Post-Apocalyptic Horror Take on HOME ALONE, Both Bloodthirsty and Sweet
