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Reviews: Kokuho from TIFF 2025

December 30, 2025

Final Rating: 4.5/5 In Japanese Kabuki theatre, women are traditionally forbidden from performing. In their place are “onnagata,” men who specialize in playing female…

Reviews: The Voice of Hind Rajab

December 29, 2025

On January 29, 2024, Hind Rami Iyad Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, called the Palestinian Red Crescent. Rajab was fleeing Gaza City with her…

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.

Reviews: Influencers

December 10, 2025

Influencers, is a the sequel to the 2022 Shudder film Influencer about a young woman who tries to escape her past trauma but can’t.

Reviews: HIM – Physical Release

November 28, 2025

HIM, directed by Justin Tipping, is a occult football film where a rookie quarterback must learn more than just the playbook from the veteran GOAT.

Reviews: Meadowlarks

November 25, 2025

In Meadowlarks, four adult indigenous siblings meet for the first time after being victims of the 60’s Scoop in Canada.

Reviews: Heaven – Restoration

November 20, 2025

Heaven, the directorial debut of Diane Keaton, is a documentary asking everyday people their thoughts on the afterlife that originally came out in 1987.

Reviews: Tatsumi

November 12, 2025

Final Rating: 3/5 Tatsumi, a gritty crime drama from Japanese director Hiroshi Shôji, stars Yûya Endô as the titular Tatsumi, a man caught up…

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.

Reviews: Nuremberg

November 5, 2025

James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg recreates the famous trials of high ranking Nazi official Hermann Göring and the men who tried him.