Perla Review (2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam)
Slovak-Austrian director Alexandra Makarova’s sophomore film sets its characters between the booming vibrancy of Vienna and the gloom of Slovakia...
Film Festivals
Memoir Of A Snail Review
The opening of Adam Elliot’s Memoir Of A Snail is so packed with detail that you need an action replay....
Wind, Talk To Me Review (2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025)
‘Wind, Talk to Me’ is a title that doesn’t exactly do justice to the picture it represents—a soft, reflective docu-fiction...
Acts of Love Review (2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam)
Thinking of incest as a non-violent and non-violating act, and contemplating somatic love at large, I am instinctively drawn to...
Frightfest Halloween 2025 – Film Review – THE BITTER TASTE (2024)
In The Bitter Taste, a disgraced hunting guide, desperate for cash, uses her rusty pentathlon skills to survive after getting...
Grimmfest 2024 – Film Review – Sayara (2024)
This astronomically violent jujutsu movie is a dark elixir of pure revenge that obliterates the boundaries of family loyalty. Unassuming...
Grimmfest 2024 – Film Review – HERESY (WITTE WIEVEN) (2024)
Beautifully crafted folk horror that holds a mirror to the patriarchal obsession of minimising and persecuting women through the conduit...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – PÁRVULOS (2024)
Parvulos is a superior survival horror invigorates the pandemic apocalypse blueprint with heart-wrenching family drama, jet-black hilarity, and vicious coming-of-age...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – The Dead Thing (2024)
Sexual intensity and emotional co-dependency in a swipe-fixated society are distorted through a supernatural lens in this enthusiastic app-based horror...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – Steppenwolf (2024)
Steppenwolf is an unrelentingly violent neo-Western from Kazakhstan channels the animalistic element of Hesse's infamous counterculture novel to mirror the...
Tribeca 2024 – Film Review – Restless (2024)
A cake-baking empty nester locks horns with an anti-social party beast in this engrossing kitchen sink horror drama with layers...
Tribeca 2024 – Film Review – Beacon (2024)
Seafaring superstition feeds delusory paranoia in this horror-tinged psychothriller that both fascinates and frustrates. Intrepid sailor Emily is following the...
Pigeon Shrine Frightfest Glasgow – Film Review – Last Straw (2023)
In Last Straw, a young woman with an unwanted pregnancy is terrorised by a masked gang while managing the graveyard...
Pigeon Shrine Frightfest Glasgow Review – All You Need Is Death (2023)
All You Need Is Death is a spectral folk horror from Ireland that refines nightmare fuel from an ancient presence...