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Reviews: The Silent Planet from Fantasia Festival 2024

July 25, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 Sometime in the near future aliens have come to live on earth because for whatever reason, their home planet is now…

Reviews: Tribeca Round Up – Part 1

July 3, 2024

With this year’s Tribeca film festival now wrapped here are the first pair of feature reviews, New Wave and Bitterroot along with three short films.

Reviews: The Fix

July 1, 2024

The Fix is a fun action romp that has just enough body horror to keep you on the edge of your seat. It’s a throwback to films from the 80’s and 90’s.

Reviews: Daddio

June 28, 2024

Daddio, is a character driven slow burn, the latest from director/writer Christy Hall starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn.

Reviews: Jeanne Du Barry

June 25, 2024

The historical romance film Jeanne du Barry is clearly a passion project for director Maïwenn, but ironically, passion is the thing most absent in the film.

Reviews: Don’t Call It Mystery From Toronto Japanese Film Festival 2024

June 20, 2024

Totonō, is a socially awkward student with a Sherlock Holmes-like knack for observation. On a trip to Hiroshima, he is enlisted to help solve a family feud.

Reviews: Missing From Toronto Japanese Film Festival 2024

June 19, 2024

Miu, the daughter of Saori and Yutaka has been missing for six months. Every day, the couple spend their time after work distributing flyers in the town square.

Reviews: Red Fever

June 14, 2024

Red Fever is a new doc from Catherine Bainbridge and Neil Diamond. Diamond talks about how in his travels he finds everyone is “fascinated by Indians”.

Reviews: The Acolyte

June 5, 2024

The Acolyte spends a lot of its time trying to build a mystery in its story but it doesn’t allow much time for those mysteries to simmer.

Reviews: SIFF Documentary Round Up – Part 2

May 30, 2024

In this batch of capsule reviews from the Seattle International FIlm Festival, we’ve chosen to focus on two documentaries.