Review: AFTERSHOCK Shakes Free Of Disaster Movie Expectations
At the outset, Aftershock appears to be another placid film about how cool it is to go clubbing in Chile. We see wine tours with tourists, eager or not, sipping away at a cabernet, feigning interest in winespeak. We attend... More »
  

Review: Say Yes to NO
I assume you're well-versed in Chilean politics of the 1980s. I mean, who isn't, right? But even if you're not -- even if you're, say, an American who barely recalls the name Pinochet and is already exhausted by the 2012... More »
  

IFFR 2013 Review: HALLEY Begs Sympathy For The Zombie
(For starters, they're so sloooo-ooow...) While there weren't as many genre films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam as, say, ten years ago, this year it actually featured two new zombie films. Amazingly, both titles managed to bring something new... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Berlinale 2013 Review: GLORIA Is A Joyful, Tragi-Comic Reminder To Keep On Truckin'
Sure, the Berlinale competition slate this year is jam-packed with self-serious films about lesbian nuns, lesbian ex-convicts, German cowboys and insane sculptors, but, the most honest, touching and even unique film thus far is actually a hilarious, honest Chilean character... More »
  

Black Movie 2013 Review: Carlos Reygadas Brings the Devil Home in POST TENEBRAS LUX
As I review more and more films out of festivals, I'm beginning to notice a pattern: I'm much more forgiving and enthusiastic about films that shoot the moon and fall somewhere short than with serviceable movies trodding well-worn territory that... More »
  

Review: ON THE ROAD Hits the Right Beats
The idea of adapting a novel as precious to the American psyche as On the Road would be terribly ambitious, even without the narrative complications of Jack Kerouac's famously stream-of-consciousness storytelling style. Ask Francis Ford Coppola. He has been working... More »
  

Grimmfest 2012 Review: WAKE UP AND DIE is GROUNDHOG DAY ... With Murder!
Seriously, "Groundhog Day with murder" seems like such an obvious idea it's hard to imagine some low-budget splatter production house hasn't tried it yet (correct me if I'm wrong), but Miguel Urrutia's Wake Up and Die appears to be the... More »
  

Sitges 2012 Review: THE SECOND DEATH Finds New Terror in Religion
Argentinean director Santiago Fernández Calvete's The Second Death is an oddity: A hard-boiled, supernatural mystery that revolves heavily around Catholic dogma. Its engagement with religion is far more complex than the slew of exorcism movies we've been subjected to as... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: TWO RABBITS Looks Good But Makes Little Sense
The first thing you'll notice in Afonso Poyart's light-hearted Brazilian crime actioner is the impressive bright yellow subtitles. I couldn't help but think for the first ten minutes about how remarkably legible those subtitles were. Why don't all movies have... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: LA MEMORIA DEL MUERTO Is A Delirious Genre Mashup
Influenced by everything from Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II (1987) this bit of occult horror from director Valentín Javier Diment pops like a Tex Avery cartoon off the screen, offering solid laughs and genuinely shocking... More »
  

You Don't Fool Me: THE PUREST OF LIES Review
Film production in Venezuela, at least for full features, is not as prolific as in other South American countries. In a good year there will be five or six Venezuelan features released in theaters, which is considered quite a good... More »
  

Fantastic Fest: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza Drunkenly Reviews Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN
Hello. My name is Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, just five short of TEQUILA swallow, and I'm the director of the stunning, beautiful, sexy, hot, crazy, fun to blow your brain, and LATINXPLOITATION masterpiece of the genre, the now famous movie esquicita... More »
  

Fantastic Fest: Javier Diment Drunkenly Reviews Javier Diment's LA MEMORIA DEL MUERTO
This is ua horror film of perono is a horror movie. It's something else. Is a series of family dramas, is also the will to find that the horror genre is just a way to talk of human pain. Really... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: COME OUT AND PLAY Drops the Ball
A textbook case of a remake failing to improve on a classic original, Come Out And Play not only loses the context of the hidden Narciso Ibáñez Serrador directed gem, which was released on the heels of the Vietnam War... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: HERE COMES THE DEVIL, And He's Looking For Sex
Here Comes the Devil is only the second film I'm seen by writer-director Adrián García Bogliano, following a recent viewing of his "geriatric lunatics with nitroglycerine" horror movie Cold Sweat only a few weeks ago. Seeing both films in such... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN Offers A Double Dose Of Viggo
As if performing in a foreign language isn't enough of a challenge, Ana Piterbarg's Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan features Viggo Mortensen playing not one but two roles entirely in Spanish. It's a casting choice from Piterbarg that -... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: 7 BOXES Are All Full of Genre Treats!
It's a hot day in the capital city of Paraguay and the exchange rate for US Dollars is running as high as the mercury in Asunción's bustling marketplace. Narrow rows of stalls glutted with people, consumer goods, and hanging animal... More »
  

Telluride 2012 Review: NO, An Absurd, Funny (and a Little Sad) Look at Politics
I assume you're well-versed in Chilean politics of the 1980s. I mean, who isn't, right? But even if you're not -- even if you're, say, an American who barely recalls the name Pinochet and is already exhausted by the 2012... More »
  

FrightFest 2012 Review: HIDDEN IN THE WOODS Is Bloody Disgusting
The first (but certainly not the last) film to rub audiences the wrong way at this year's FrightFest was Hidden In The Woods, the latest effort from Chilean director Patricio Valladares. A relentlessly rough, misogynistic and amoral story of brutality... More »
  

JIMFF 2012 Review - TROPICALIA
Seen at the 8th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (JIMFF). Ah nostalgia, what a curious beast it is. This documentary whisked me back to my college days when I was an avid music collector with a rather eclectic set... More »
  
 
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