Censor – Review Alysha Prasad August 20, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. “Horror is already out there, in all of us” is the answer in Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor, which...
Martyrs Lane – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 19, 2021 Reviews Ruth Platt’s Martyrs Lane centres around 10-year-old Leah (Kiera Thompson) who lives in a bustling vicarage with her family. One day, a spectral child (Sienna Sayer) with feathered wings on her back appears...
The Righteous – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 16, 2021 Reviews The idea of penance is covered in Mark O'Brien’s The Righteous after a former priest, Frederic (Henry Czerny) and his wife, Ethel Mason (Mimi Kuzyk), mourn the loss of their adopted child. When they’re...
Hellbender – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 15, 2021 Reviews From the minds of John Adams, Toby Poser, and their daughter Zelda Adams, comes Hellbender, a family-focused twist on the usual coming-of-age story, starring Zelda and her sister, Lulu Adams. Lonely,...
What Josiah Saw – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 14, 2021 Reviews This dark tale starts with shots of beautiful countryside contrasted with haunting music that’s laced with echoing screams, indicative of what’s to come. Something awful has happened in What Josiah Saw,...
Bull – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 13, 2021 Reviews “I’m coming for all of them.” Neil Maskell takes on the character of Bull, a once feared enforcer, in Paul Andrew Williams’ newest revenge-thriller of the same name. After being absent for ten years,...
CODA – Review Alysha Prasad August 13, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. From writer-director Siân Heder comes CODA, an impactful story that focuses on 17-year-old Ruby Rossi...
King Knight – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 8, 2021 Reviews Matthew Gray Gubler teams up with director Richard Bates Jr. for the fourth time in Bates’ newest witchy comedy, King Knight. Decorated with tattoos, Gubler plays Thorn, the High Priest of a modern day...
Tin Can – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 8, 2021 Reviews Seth A. Smith’s Tin Can transports viewers into an all too familiar reality where a fungal outbreak named Coral rages across the world. As Fret (Anna Hopkins), a leading parasitologist, is close to...
Agnes – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 2, 2021 Reviews “Stick to the script,” says Father Donaghue (Ben Hall), holding up the Holy Bible perfectly in frame, as if a product placement. Mickey Reece’s newest horror, Agnes, focuses on the Catholic Church’s...
Bergman Island – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 18, 2021 Reviews Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film, Bergman Island, stars Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth as filmmakers Chris and Tony who have retreated to the island of Fårö for the summer. They travel to the island, known for...
The Divide – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 16, 2021 Reviews Catherine Corsini’s The Divide (La Fracture) stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Marina Foïs as Raf and Julie, two women on the verge of a breakup, stuck in a hospital on the night of a major demonstration of...
Compartment No. 6 – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 14, 2021 Reviews Adapted from the novel of the same name by Rosa Liksom comes Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 (Hytti nro 6), a film that takes place mostly within the confines of a Russian train. Young Finnish student...
Benedetta – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 12, 2021 Reviews Based on the non-fiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown is Paul Verhoeven’s newest erotic, blasphemous, and extremely camp film, Benedetta. In...
Lingui – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 12, 2021 Reviews Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Lingui tells the story of Amina (Achouackh Abakar Souleymane), a practising Muslim in Chad, and her 15-year-old daughter, Maria (Rihane Khalil Alio). When Amina learns that her...