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That ShelfCinemaHaunted Review: WIFF 2026 A charmingly funny ghost story, Haunted (Hantée) blends family drama, unexpected friendships and surprisingly meaningful themes.

11.06

That ShelfCinemaInterview: Peter Farrelly on I Play Rocky I Play Rocky director Peter Farrelly discusses the true story behind Rocky and bringing Stallone’s journey to the big screen. See it starting November 13.

11.05

That ShelfCinemaThe Mongoose Review: Liam Neeson Floors It ‘The Mongoose’ follows a high-speed car chase as a war hero flees a murder scene to avoid reliving his worst nightmare.

11.04

That ShelfCinemaHalloween Costumes from 2026’s Biggest Films, TV and Pop Culture Moments No ideas for a Halloween costume this year? Let 2026's biggest pop culture hits like Obsession, Carrie, and You Can See Everything be your guide.

10.31

That ShelfCinema& Sons Review: Family Drama With a Sci-Fi Twist Thanks to a talented cast and a pointed script, & Sons makes a good, but not quite remarkable, addition to the pantheon of family dramas (with a twist).

10.29

That ShelfCinemaO Fear, O Night Review: WIFF 2026 Christine Chevarie-Lessard’s O Fear, O Night brings anxiety to life in a humorous, heartfelt documentary about the fears that connect us all.

10.29

That ShelfCinemaContra Zoom Pod Episode 347: Celebrating Filipino Cinema Part 2 For Filipino American Heritage Month, Contra Zoom looks at 3 films, including Forgotten Island, Filipiñana, and First Comes Love: Nakabingwit.

10.29

That ShelfCinemaThe Devils Review: Ken Russell’s 1971 Masterpiece Returns in Its Truest, Most Complete Form Ken Russell's 1971 masterpiece, The Devils , returns in its truest, most complete form.

10.27

That ShelfCinemaYour Invite to the Year of Penélope Cruz An interview with Penélope Cruz on The Invite and an extraordinary performance that could help make Oscar history in her incredible year.

10.24

That ShelfCinemaWicker Review: Seasoned Wood Buoys Warm Fable Wicker is a surprisingly tender feminist romance that has more to say about gender politics, love, and relationship dynamics than any other film this year.

10.23

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo