Category: Movies

Review: THE CIVIL DEAD, Uncomfortably Smart Take on the Boredom of Death Probably most of us, at one time or another, have had a friend in our lives, whose friendship, after a time, became more of a burden than a gift. The friend who can’t seem to read social cues […]

Rotterdam 2023 Review: DALVA, Fantastically Acted Gripping Drama In Emmanuelle Nicot’s debut feature film we follow a 12-year-old girl, the titular Dalva, who the authorities have forcefully taken away from her sexually abusive father Jacques. “Rescued” is what you would think, but Dalva is of another opinion, and wants nothing […]

JETHICA Trailer: SXSW Indie Flick Streaming Exclusively on Fandor in The U.S. This February Cinedigm and Fandor announced today that the latter will be the exclusive streaming home in the U.S. for Pete Ohs’ SXSW indie film, Jethica.  In all already loaded weekend of releases for genre cinema ikn the […]

Review: GODLAND: Majestic Nature, Fleeting Human Life Godland, directed by Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason, is inspired by the first photographs found in the early settlement in the southwest of Iceland. The film has an awe-inspiring, majestic setting characteristic of many films shot in the active volcanic island nation. Indeed, everywhere […]

Rotterdam 2023 Review: ONE WIN Is Exactly What You Predict It Is An underdog sports team of ragtag losers needs to play an incredibly important game and against all odds manages to put up a decent fight, AND on top of that the journey solves the personal problems of several […]

THE NOMAD Trailer: Mystery Thriller on Digital February 14th When a reporter filming a story about a serial killer targeting the city’s priests comes face to face with the killer, she must choose between turning him in and finishing the story … or directing him towards her abusive father and […]

CALVAIRE Trailer: Fabrice du Welz’s Debut Gets a HD Remaster From Yellow Veil Pictures Marc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitants. This week our friends at Yellow Veil Pictures revealed […]

Sound And Vision: James Cameron In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss Martini Ranch’ Reach, directed by James Cameron. Never doubt James Cameron. It is a rule in Hollywood. At the time everyone doubted if Titanic […]

Sundance 2023 Review: LA PECERA (THE FISHBOWL), Penetrating Exploration of Terminal Illness The history of Puerto Rico is the history of colonialism. The history of Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, is the history of American imperialism. During World War II, the United States forcibly expropriated most […]

Sundance 2023 Review: SORCERY, Essential Chilean Anti-Colonialist Narrative Chiloé Island lies off the southwestern coast of Chile. It’s a lush, verdant island, filled with rolling hills, forests, and farmland. Over millennia, it’s been home first to indigenous people, chief among them the Huilliche, and then, like most of South/Latin America, […]

WAKING KARMA Review: Tepid Attempts to Thrill in an Ultimately Unengaging Thriller On Karma’s seventeenth birthday her mom, Sunny, discovers that the father of her child, a dangerous and murderous cult leader named Paul, is coming to collect his daughter for a rite of passage ritual. Mother and daughter flee […]

Sundance 2023 Review: MY ANIMAL, Visually Arresting Lycanthropy Tale More than two decades ago, Ginger Snaps,a modest, lycanthropy-themed horror film from Canada, hit the festival circuit, receiving solid critical notices, but limited returns at the box office. Any other film — and maybe any other time — and Ginger Snaps would have received a […]