Deathstalker ★★½
If someone asked if Steven Kostanski’s retro-romancing reboot of Roger Corman’s eponymous sword-and-sorcery film series is strictly speaking a goodContinue Reading
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Friedas Fall ★★½
“The wolf often comes in sheep’s clothing,” comments a disdainful prison warden in Maria Brendle’s ambitious combination of period pieceContinue Reading
‘Dracula’ Radu Jude Interview
As one of contemporary cinema’s most incisive auteurs, Radu Jude returns to the competition of the Locarno Film Festival withContinue Reading
Nova 78′ (documentary) ★★★
For a 78 brisk minutes, Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias’ defining documentary about the Nova Convention which almost 50 yearsContinue Reading
Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream ★★
Baghdad’s gritty reality and the ancient myths lingering among its ruins intertwine with the childlike imagination of Iraq’s future youngContinue Reading
Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation (documentary) ★★
America has a thing with myth making, one of the prominent interviewees remarks more than half-way through Ebs Burnough‘s dedicatedContinue Reading
Judas’ Gospel ★½
From the moment blasting heavy metal music throws the blood-red opening credits on the black screen, Giulio Base‘s fictional biopicContinue Reading
Don’t Let Me Die ★★½
Quiet tragedy, absurdist humor, and unsettling undertones of genre cinema blend in Andrei Epure‘s gloomy feature film debut. Expanding onContinue Reading
Follies ★½
At least on the surface, Éric K. Boulianne‘s uneven entry to the Locarno Film Festival’s Filmmakers of the Present sectionContinue Reading
Exile ★★½
Feverish colors, muted tones, and corroded surfaces immediately evoke the suffocating aura of systemic corruption haunting Mehdi Hmili‘s nightmarish thriller.Continue Reading
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