Tomb of Dreams ★★½
In a world of constant and consecutive catastrophes, where one terrible event is surpassed by the next before its consequencesContinue Reading
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Marco Bellocchio: La porta della Realtà (documentary) ★★
Conceived after nearly two decades of collaboration between the prominent photographer and the renowned filmmaker, and feeling about as long,Continue Reading
Sundown ★½
An isolated cabin in the wintry Canadian countryside becomes the site of a family kangaroo court, as elderly Donna (OlwenContinue Reading
Bakma ★½
“Bakma” is a Tunisian term for voicelessness or the inability to speak, Abdelhamid Bouchnak explains in a brief introduction, justContinue Reading
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
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
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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