Few snippets of on-screen text in modern foreign cinema have been as intriguing as the opening blurb of Tsai Ming-liang’s latest film, Days — “This film is intentionally unsubtitled.” — not just because it points to a…
Slow Burn
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A horrific crime, locals thirsty for vengeance. When Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to his remote, drought-stricken hometown in the Australian outback to go to the funeral of a friend, he’s roped into solving a…
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DramaReviews
‘The Killing of Two Lovers’: An Undercooked Yet Intermittently Effective Character Study
David, a husband and father of four desperately attempts to keep his family intact during a tense separation from his wife in The Killing of Two Lovers. The couple agrees to see other people, but…
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ReviewsThriller
‘The Winter Lake’ Is a Chilling Thriller That Won’t Leave You Cold
by Lisa Geurtsby Lisa GeurtsIn The Winter Lake, Tom and his mother Elaine move to a small village in Ireland after a traumatic event surrounding Tom occurs. They quickly meet Ward and his daughter Holly. The pair has a…
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Retrospectives
The Brilliance of ‘Unbreakable’ Remains Intact, 20 Years On
by B Petersonby B PetersonThe year 1999 has long been considered one of the greatest years in cinema history. I see no issue with that position. It’s a shame that so many were left out when it came Oscar…
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You’d think that after Portrait of a Lady on Fire, we wouldn’t need romances, or even narrative films, anymore. I mean, Céline Sciamma has kinda been there and conquered that. Be that as it may,…
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After Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film Children of Men, the Science-Fiction Fertility Thriller is a sub-genre rarely seen in cinema. But leave it to the mistress of the cinema of the body, Claire Denis to tackle…