Category: Entertainment

This claustrophobic and shocking drama deals with one of the most horrific events in modern Mexican history, the massacre in the Tlatelolco neighborhood of Mexico City a few days before the start of the 1968 …

Along with Piers Haggard’s Blood on the Satan’s Claw and Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man, Michael Reeves’ Witchinder General is now considered the unholy trinity of British folk horror. Cult films and classics that have …

Ole Bornedal was a promising young Danish director in the nineties. He introduced himself with the dark thriller “Nightwatch” about a student who works as a night watchman in a morgue and soon becomes involved …

  British master of high-concept SF Alex Garland (writer of the novel Unfortunately, screenwriter of films such as 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Never Let Me Go, who later began directing films from his own …

A few years ago, I noticed the American investigative journalist and documentarian Jon Alpert for the extraordinary documentary “Cuba and the Cameraman”. It was a film that showed life in Cuba in an incredible way …

British comedy duo David Earl (the postman from Gervais’ “After Life”) and Chris Hayward made a feature-length version of their 2017 short film and radio show, and “Brian and Charles” could best be described as …

In the past few years, the Lebanese have even had two films that were nominated for an Oscar. Although truly outstanding films, neither Ziad Doueri’s “Insult” nor Nadine Labaki’s “Capernaum” brought that Middle Eastern country …

This observational, naturalistic drama by the experienced Xavier Beauvois (Of Gods and Men) promised much more at the beginning than it delivered in the end. The premiere of “Drift Away” or “Albatross” in the original …

With an unusual distich, the duo Alessio Rigo de Righi – Matteo Zoppis presented themselves in Cannes, a tandem that has so far shot documentaries, and “Re Grancho” or “The Tale of King Crab” is …

Probably Japan’s greatest living director, Hirokazu Koreeda, made perhaps the weakest film in his more than 30-year career in South Korea. Four years earlier, Koreeda was awarded the Palme d’Or in Cannes for “Shoplifters”, and …