by Matthew Lee, February 4, 2011 7:46 PM
(Police, Adjective is available to buy on UK DVD from 14th February 2011, courtesy of Artificial Eye.)There's a key passage of dialogue towards the end of Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective that serves as an unfortunate way of summing up the...
by Matthew Lee, October 2, 2010 5:05 PM
Beneath the chilling physical and emotional violence, Sean Byrne's beautifully twisted little romance The Loved Ones is arguably not really a horror film at all. It's horrifying, yes, occasionally sickeningly explicit, and it does play several of its pivotal...
by Kurt Halfyard, August 11, 2010 1:00 PM
[Updated with a higher quality version of the trailer.]The best globule of cinematic madness that I caught on the festival circuit in 2009 is going to start hitting a few theatrical venues for its commercial release in September. IFC is...
by Kurt Halfyard, July 21, 2010 4:16 PM
[Oh those clowns at E1! Why in gods name would you release (In Canada, anyway) a cerebral science fiction film for adults on the same day as Christopher Nolan's juggernaut? Without any marketing! Do you want your movie to fail,...
by Kurt Halfyard, June 10, 2010 4:02 PM
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos' crypto-satire Dogtooth is hyped as weird, transgressive, darkly funny and gorgeous to boot. It has been turning heads on the festival circuit since its Cannes 2009 debut where it won the Un Certain Regard prize. Kino...
by Kurt Halfyard, May 28, 2010 9:14 AM
There is a scene in Harry Brown when the titular pensioner and war veteran has had enough of all the hoodie-hoodlums terrorizing his run-down neighborhood that he goes to buy some fire-arms and fight back himself. The 'arms merchants' -...
by Ben Umstead, May 19, 2010 12:06 PM
[With the advent of a North American theatrical release from record label Drag City, Aaron Krasnov brings us this review]Trash Humpers is ostensibly 78 minutes of foliage and refuse fornication, vandalism and nursery rhymes. We follow a group of four deranged...
by Ben Umstead, May 4, 2010 11:12 PM
[ Though the fest ended proper on Sunday, still a few reviews trickle in. My coverage is done minus some interview transcription, but Aaron Krasnov has a couple films up his sleeve. ]Of all the films I was looking forward...
by Ben Umstead, April 27, 2010 9:30 PM
In Dorothee van den Berghe's second feature, ten-year-old, Karo (Anna Franziska Jager) is on her way from Belgium to start a new life with her free radical parents (Deborah Francois & Matthias Schoenaerts) in Amsterdam. Lovingly crafted with a wonder...
by Todd Brown, April 17, 2010 5:00 PM
[My review of Valhalla Rising originally ran when the film premiered in Toronto but with it now screening at Action Fest I hereby present it to you again.]You could say that the mark of a good film maker is...
The Devil's Chair
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