Kevin (Christopher Abbott) and Val (Jerrod Carmichael is also the film’s director) are best friends who have agreed to commit suicide together. Already in the opening scene we see them holding a gun to …
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Kevin (Christopher Abbott) and Val (Jerrod Carmichael is also the film’s director) are best friends who have agreed to commit suicide together. Already in the opening scene we see them holding a gun to …
Continue readingThis dark alpine fantasy of the Austrian Peter Brunner had its premiere at the Locarno festival, and “Luzifer” is a rather shocking story about a mother and son living in isolation somewhere in the Austrian …
Continue readingAfter more than two decades, legendary Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has returned to SF and horror, more specifically body horror, a subgenre that not only made him famous in the 70s and 80s, but he …
Continue readingThe 1990s were still the years when Tom Cruise aspired to be a serious actor. I have the impression that after 1999 and the role in the masterpieces of Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” and …
Continue readingThe persecution of women who have been declared witches for various reasons has been a favorite hobby of many religious fundamentalists across Europe for centuries. One such case, which really happened in the 17th century …
Continue readingWe met the American-Italian filmmaker Jonas Carpignan in 2017 with the drama “A Ciambra”, and his next film, “A Chiara”, is a kind of sequel to its predecessor. And not only because it was shot …
Continue readingAnd while in Eggers’ “Lighthouse” the ungrateful task of being on an isolated island had two people, so we know how it ended, in the psychological drama – horror by the Welshman Russell Owen, …
Continue readingA touching and emotional drama about three old loners who chose to live away from civilization, somewhere deep in the forests of Quebec, was shot by the eminent Canadian Francophone filmmaker Louise Archambault. Ted (Kenneth …
Continue readingTwenty years before the world was paralyzed by the Covid-19 virus epidemic, there was a danger that a far more dangerous and deadly respiratory virus could spread. It is the SARS virus that …
Continue readingAnother impressive documentary is coming to us from Brazil. Experienced filmmaker Marcelo Gomes has ventured into the northeastern Brazilian province of Pernambuco. The director himself is also a narrator here who remembers how as a …
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