Review: Davos (2020)
The question the documentary “Davos” keeps asking though is, dialogue between whom? As the global leaders and thinkers take the stage at a later point, the setup makes for a very private and secluded picture.
May 2020
Review: Unholy ‘Mole (2019)
Can guacamole be enough of a motivation for a desperate husband and a father to be (R.D. Mower) to sell the soul of his unborn son to the animated devil (voiced by Ray Wise!)
Review: Exit (2020)
Exit, written and directed by Ivan Basov, is a science fiction / horror short film which is being shown at HÖFF (usually taking place in Haapsalu, Estonia, but moved online for the obvious reasons this year) in Little Nightmares sidebar for fantastic shorts.
It’s The End of the World as we know
While many postponed festivals have moved their programmes online, Fantaspoa has taken a more sideways approach with Fantaspoa at Home
Review: Kombinat (2020)
The story of Kombinat does not necessarily revolve around the titular steelworks factory seen in the opening scene and many times later on, but its presence is significant both for the film’s subjects and for the industrial city of Magnitogorsk
Review: El Father Plays Himself (2020)
On the surface, El Father Plays Himself appears to be a film about a troubled shooting of a film, which is not exactly a novel concept. But, unlike Eleanor Coppola’s Hearts of Darknes: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse that dealt with…
Review: Mystery Box (2018)
How to mess up a decent, tried and tested idea, a clear sense of the importance of the atmosphere, good acting, decent production values and lots of craft involved in a genre movie? The answer is simple: add the rushed, cop-out ending.
Review: A Machine To Live In (2020)
The feature debut of Chicago-based visual artists and cinematographers Meredith Zielke and Yoni Goldstein, A Machine to Live In is an impressionistic portrait of Brazil’s iconic federal capital Brasilia…
Review: Loom (2018)
Rothlisberger, working on a script he wrote with Brock Russell, handles all the three tropes (vampires, werewolves and redneck rapists) quite well that it does not feel inflationary and over-crowded.
