Ireland prepares for a referendum to repeal a controversial anti-abortion law in The 8th. In 1983, the people of Ireland voted to add the 8th Amendment to the constitution stating that the unborn have equal rights to life as its mother, which effectively makes abortion illegal in the country. 35 years later, activist Ailbhe Smyth leads…
A man in a Russian coastal town fights to keep his home in the drama Leviathan. Kolya (Alexei Serebriakov) lives on a peninsula by the Barents Sea with his teenage son Roma (Sergey Pokhodaev) and second wife Lilia (Elena Lyadova). Kolya is in the process of fighting against the town’s corrupt mayor Vadim (Roman Madyanov),…
The recent 1980s remake trend continues with this new reboot of RoboCop. Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), one of the only decent cops remaining on Detroit’s police force, is severely injured after an attempt on his life, via a car explosion. This is the perfect opportunity needed by OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton), who wants…
I should probably preface by saying that I have a love/hate relationship with avant garde/experimental films. Some types of experimental films I find compelling, while others I find excruciating. Sadly, I have to say that the highly experimental documentary Leviathan falls into the latter category. Leviathan is a cinéma vérité documentary about a group of…
