If nothing else comes from Nathan Silver’s Thirst Street, a thoroughly bonkers erotic thriller that seems deliberately tone-deaf and jarring in much the same manner as Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon (2016), it’s that lead actress Lindsay Burdge is…
Movie Review : Motherland
It looks less like a hospital than a production line. Rows of stone-faced women endure contractions in silence as they wait to be processed by overworked receptionists. They’re soon wheeled into giant rooms partitioned off into narrow hallways by sheets…
Movie Review: El Futuro Perfecto
Clocking in at barely over an hour, Nele Wholatz’s debut feature film El Futuro Perfecto is that increasingly rare export from the Locarno Film Festival: an introspective art film both intellectually astute and emotionally resonate. While a cursory viewing might…
Movie Review : Kissing Candice
It seems oddly appropriate that director Aoife McArdle began her career making music videos and commercials, as her debut feature film Kissing Candice feels like the product of a creator long accustomed to making every single shot, edit, and angle…
Movie Review: The Limehouse Golem
Much like the Victorian audiences who attended the music hall burlesques, or “shockers,” audiences who watch Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem know exactly what they’re in store for. Violence, gore, and butcherings. A little sex, a little naughtiness, and…
Movie Review: Who the F**K Is That Guy
Michael Alago didn’t look like much back in the glory days of late 70s/early 80s New York squalor and filth, when blue-jeaned punks bumped shoulders with headbangers, druggies, and drop-outs. A skinny, effeminate Puerto Rican kid from a Hassidic neighborhood…
Movie Review: Killing Ground
What’s an Australian horror film about backpackers getting savagely murdered by insane hunters to do to free themselves of the long shadow of Greg McLean’s 2005 film Wolf Creek ? Up the gore? Possibly, although the “head on a stick” scene would…
