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Author: Elysia Brenner

Elysia Brenner writes and podcasts about (pop-)culture from the postcard-perfect comfort of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Especially partial to horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre storytelling, more than anything she values engrossing tales built around compelling characters. Listen to more of her film, TV, and book takes on The Lorehounds podcast, as well as Wool-Shift-Dust and The Star Wars Canon Timeline Podcast.

Reviews: 2026 Hot Docs Round Up – Part 4

June 1, 2026

Pressing play on a new documentary short is a bit like reaching into Forest Gump’s proverbial box of chocolates: You never know what you’re…

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Reviews: 2026 Hot Docs Round Up – Part 3

May 25, 2026

In four stories that span the globe, individuals and entire societies face down four different challenges to their continued right to self-determination – whether…

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Reviews: 2026 Hot Docs Round Up – Part 2

May 15, 2026

Children of War (in 5 Films) – a Hot Docs 2026 Round-Up As the world grapples with wars raging around the globe, filmmakers capture…

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Reviews: Black Zombie from Hot Docs 2026

April 27, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 Afro-Caribbean-Canadian filmmaker Maya Annik Bedward has spent most of her life being told that her quest for answers to her own…

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Reviews: Hamlet

April 13, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 After more than 50 adaptations of Shakespeare’s seminal work, the natural first question is: why do I need to see this…

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Reviews: Papaya from Berlinale 2026

February 26, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 A citrus-colored summer radiates from the screen in any viewing of Papaya, the wordless, cheerfully animated feature debut from Brazilian writer…

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Reviews: Resurrection

January 12, 2026

Final Rating: 4.5/5 If you are excited by the idea of elevated Lynchian storytelling that is a love letter to the history of cinema…

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Reviews: Imagine Fantastic Film Festival Round Up

January 6, 2026

Here is a round up of reviews from this year’s Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, including The Last Viking, New Group, Dollhouse and more!

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Reviews: Reedland (Rietland)

December 18, 2025

Reedland is a slow burn Dutch thriller about a reed farmer who finds the body of a young woman dead in his fields, setting him off to find the culprit.

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Reviews: 2025 Leiden International Film Festival Round Up

November 10, 2025

The Leiden International Film Festival, the Netherlands’ premiere festival for international narrative film just finished and we have reviews from the fest.

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