Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023) Dispatch 3: Norwegian Co-Productions and Solidarity “Somebody watches something, they’re touched, and then [what]?”
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023) Dispatch 2: Memories of the Land Palestinian cinema is unlike any other national or regional cinema.
Reviews REVIEW: AZRAEL (2024) dir. E.L. Katz You read that right: Azrael takes place in a post-rapture society.
Reviews GO TO: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003) dir. Gore Verbinski We took the Pirates of the Caribbean for granted and now we live with the consequences of our actions.
Reviews GO TO: 300 (2007) dir. Zack Snyder ...gives nearly any other film on this side of the century marker an insurmountable standard to claim the title as the most mythological storytelling display in 21st-century cinema
Reviews Review: The Watchers (2024) dir. Ishana Night Shyamalan Ishana Night Shyamalan’s The Watchers was one of my most anticipated films of 2024.
Reviews Review: Road to Boston (2023) dir. Kang Je-kyu Road to Boston tells the story of marathoner Suh Yun-bok (Im Si-wan) and his senior coach turned surprise teammate Sohn Kee-chung (Ha Jung-woo) as they compete in the 1947 Boston International Marathon.
Reviews Review: Pandemonium (2023) dir. Quarxx The first 20 minutes are excellent. And the final ten minutes work well enough. It’s the middle hour or so that just squashes all of the other good ideas.
Boston Hassle Interview: Rebel Moon VFX Supervisor Marcus Taormina Enjoy this glimpse into the creation of Rebel Moon.
Reviews Review: Crimson Snout (2023) dir. Luu Thanh Luan A perplexing quasi-pro-vegan horror film about a crazed demon dog.
Reviews REVIEW: Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (2024) dir. Zack Snyder Love sometimes demands such a heavy burden of self-sacrifice that one can even call the outpouring of that love violent.
Reviews Review: Neandria (2023) dir. Reha Erdem Turkish writer-director Reha Erdem isn’t a name many North American cineastes will recognize. Even those familiar with Turkish cinema would be forgiven for not having Erdem on their new release radar. That doesn’t stop Erdem with each new film from declaring his own relevance to the larger project
Reviews Review: Mai (2024) dir. Trấn Thành Vietnam’s box office appears to be one of the fastest growing audiences in Southeast Asia. Almost every year the country produces a new all-time box-office regent and the country’s newly minted highest-grossing film of all time, Mai, has also become Vietnam’s greatest success abroad. Director Trấn Thành
Reviews Buff Review: Infested (2023) dir. Sébastien Vaniček We don’t have enough spider movies. For how widespread arachnophobia is, there is a relative dearth of actually watchable spider horror. Beginning as early as 1955’s Tarantula, the few spider films we get center jumbo-sized arachnids — the sort you’re very unlikely to ever encounter in your bathroom.
Reviews BUFF Review: Fatal Termination (1990) dir. Andrew Kam Most movies have warts. But not all warts are made equal.
Reviews Review: The Manifestation (2024) dir. Geert Heetebrij I’ve always found the crypto bro a bit unsettling. The (rare) unaware crypto bro is the worst of the sort: a smugness multiplied by their own depravity of self-knowledge that disgusts in both self-absorption and aesthetic value. The Manifestation, the directorial feature debut from the Dutch-born and US-based Geert
Reviews BBFF Dispatch #4: Lovable (2022) dir. Staņislavs Tokalovs / Faulty Brides (2023) dir. Ergo Kuld Staņislavs Tokalovs must have been one of the Baltics’ busiest film creatives over the past few years because he has three separate entries in this year’s Boston Baltic Film Festival...
Baltic Cinema BBFF Interview: Staņislavs Tokalovs "I started to think, 'Okay, so I can either take the money and rewrite what he wants' — but I had to overstep myself — or I say, 'Okay, you go F-yourself?' It took me a couple of days, but I decided not to write it."
Reviews BBFF Dispatch #3: Everything Will Be Alright (2023) dir. Staņislavs Tokalovs / The Poet (2022) dir. Vytautas V. Landsbergis & Giedrius Tamoševičius “I will put a mask on you just in case,” Irina tells her mother at a V-Day event during the pandemic. “Okay, but why?”
Aurora BBFF Interview: Maarja Johanna Mägi "Well, this profession depends a lot on luck. If you happen to be in the right place and someone who just needs your type of acting will see you."
Reviews BBFF Dispatch #2: Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter (2022) dir. Elmo Nüganen / The Invisible Fight (2023) dir. Rainer Sarnet “Prove the righteousness of your path.”
