Review: Our Bed Is Green (2021)
There are echoes of the Japanese anime films from the 90s and an array of the live action dystopian SF-noirs from Blade Runner to Strange Days. But design-wise, Our Bed Is Green is something else
April 2021
Review: The Mechanical Dancer (2021)
‘The Mechanical Dancer’ faces the biggest problem when its retro look gets contrasted by the crisp quality of the digital animation.
Review: Breaches (2021)
Breaches focuses on insufficient measures to do something about the domestic abuse, such as the inefficient restraining orders and the technology possible to hack or fool
Review: I’ll Be Back Tomorrow
The Summers Brothers’ short horror I’ll Be Back Tomorrow plays with safe tropes: haunted houses, nightmares coming true and noises mistaken to be coming from some unknown creature that happen to be made by housepets
Review: Utuqaq (2021)
‘Utuqaq’ is far from a groundbreaking documentary about the climate change, but it does what its director promises – it tells a planetary story of the Arctic with its magnificent landscapes almost completely empty of people.
Review: Bubble (2020)
Two standard expressions spring to mind after having watched Haonan Wang’s superbly crunchy relationship horror drama Bubble: “You are so cute, I could eat you up” and “You destroy the thing that you love.”
Review: Monte Bravo (2020)
It’s a very personal project for the director Noelia Mª Muino Gonzalez who shot her genre-esque period drama Monte Bravo in her home village in the Spanish province of Galicia, with all-amateur cast from the region.
Review: Coffee & Sugar (2021)
As a viewing experience, Coffee & Sugar is genuinely heart-warming.
Review: Nuevo Rico (2021)
Success comes with a steep price to pay and it is a part of the universal human knowledge.
