DR. JEKYLL feels right at home in the Hammer Horror tradition
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
There’s much to commend here, and is a welcome return for a British studio with such a rich horror history. Long live Hammer!
Athena Film Festival: Q, IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?, YOUR FAT FRIEND, and BREAKING THE NEWS
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Four more films from the Athena Film Festival.
WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN celebrates the pain and frailty of being human
by Tina Kakadelis, Staff Writer
What if we existed in an alternate universe where our hearts were ordinary objects in our chests?
T BLOCKERS evokes Argento but from a younger, queerer lens
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Key to T Blockers’ urgency is the notion that no matter how much vigilante justice happens in the moment, this apocalypse has happened before and will happen again.
2024 Athena Film Festival: GIRL, TWICE COLONIZED, DANCING QUEEN, FANCY DANCE
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Here’s the ares some of the flicks I saw on Thursday and Friday nights and Saturday afternoon.
COPA 71 shines a light on buried history of women's soccer (football)
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
I'm not alone in my wonderment seeing the historical footage found in Copa 71.
DUNE: PART TWO is a beautiful book report
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
The spice expands consciousness–I wish Denis Villeneuve had at least experimented with it before he decided to navigate the spaceways of this science fiction epic.
IO CAPITANO has familiar pieces but puts them together for a unique and moving whole
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Io Capitano is getting deserved attention for being a nominee for Best International Feature at this year’s Oscars, and rightly so.
GOLDEN YEARS shows how we can cope with change at any stage of our lives
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Golden Years, if not a revolutionary piece of film, is at least a movie with a relatively radical ethos.
IMPERFECT chooses reality over "inspo-porn"
by Billie Anderson, Staff Writer
With such a simple premise and result, it seems depressing that this documentary is almost revolutionary: a documentary about disabled people that feels aimed towards other disabled viewers.
LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP tanks a promising start
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
…At which point I yelled “WHAT?” at the screen, the only reasonable reaction to LDD trying to end on that note.
VESELKA: THE RAINBOW ON THE CORNER AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD shares a Ukrainian immigrant story
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
While the film starts in medias res, eleven days into the war in Veselka’s crowded basement kitchen, the film takes a broad look at Veselka’s place in the history of Little Ukraine and the East Village.
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2024 features and shorts
by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
The festival’s focus on women and non-binary filmmakers has given many filmmakers, academics, and others who join in to find a space to congregate and share the spotlight when they might feel marginalized in other similar spaces.
BLEEDING LOVE exceeds the potential of its weak script
by Megan Robinson, Staff Writer
What hurts Bleeding Love the most is its writing. Though it has some funny scenes, it never escapes the shackles of a cookie cutter plot.
SHE IS CONANN bends gender to show truth
by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
For all its fantastical elements its themes are grounded in our realities, especially around power and the way barbarism has evolved in our modern day.
MONOLITH is a minimalist misinformation thriller
by Tina Kakadelis, Staff Writer
“I want to tell you a story…all you have to do is listen.”
THE HOBBY thoroughly shows off a bubble without examining it
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
October 2021 to March 2022. That's when director Morgan Jon Fox filmed The Hobby, a new documentary about the business of trading cards, accidentally catching a market most of us never think about at a startling peak.
MIGHTNIGHT PEEPSHOW focuses more on bloodshed than erotic thrills
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Midnight Peepshow may suggest a thriller filled with deep, dark, dirty sexual fantasies, but this anthology film delivers more violence than sex.
DRIFT is a deeply emotional two-hander about life in the margins
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
The trauma of Drift shouldn’t define it, as ultimately it’s a film about intimacy cutting through fear and precarity, and how the kindness of strangers need not come with strings attached.
RESTORE POINT is a fun Czech interpretation of cyberpunk
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
Restore Point seems to be drawing on sci-fi cinema from this side of the Atlantic though, with its most obvious influences being Blade Runner and Minority Report.