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Dancing Village: The Curse Begins — Kimo Stamboel

Dancing Village: The Curse Begins — Kimo Stamboel

Instead of relying on jumping out of closets and dark rooms to generate one-second bodily reactions, The Curse Begins funneled its horror through the horrible realization that one day, if you aren’t already, you too will grow old and decrepit.

Sweet Dreams — Ena Sendijarevic

Sweet Dreams — Ena Sendijarevic

A pregnant woman nearing delivery self-pleasures by rubbing her privates against a bedpost.

Yohanna

Just around 530 km to the southeast of Bali, one of the wealthiest places in Southeast Asia, sits one of the region’s poorer areas: Sumba, Indonesia. Nearly half of all children do not finish their basic education and the mortality rate for diseases like malaria, cured and perfectly treatable

Notes on the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

Notes on the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

We live in a digital, uber-modern world: that’s the message from the 27th Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival. Following the global trauma of pandemic isolation, the films I viewed at this year’s festival overwhelmingly pointed to the shared anxieties of a post-pandemic world, including but not limited to the

The Raid Holds Up

The Raid Holds Up

The premise enfranchises some of the best action of the century.