This review was originally published as part of my coverage of Hot Docs 2015 A group of scientists simulate an encounter with extraterrestrials in The Visit: An Alien Encounter. The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs has prepared a scenario of what would be done in the event of an alien life form landing…
A group of scientists simulate an encounter with extraterrestrials in The Visit: An Alien Encounter. The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs has prepared a scenario of what would be done in the event of an alien life form landing on Earth. The audience is given the point of view of “the visitor,” as…
A woman is haunted by a past tragedy in Missing People. Martina Batan is the director of a New York art gallery, who is still haunted by the 1978 unsolved murder of her brother Jeffrey. Martina has been obsessively collecting the artwork of controversial artist Roy Ferdinand and has even befriended his sisters Faye and…
Indie Spotlight is a series focusing on reviews of independent films This is a repost of a review originally posted during TIFF13, under the film’s original name The Station The Austrian sci-fi/horror film Blood Glacier focuses on a team of scientists on a Climate Research Base in the German Alps. Lead by Janek (Gerhard Liebmann),…
Enea is a 29 year old Italian man with autism, who works in a textile factory. He has never been in a sexual relationship and is often trying to pick up girls, though they more often than not ignore his advances. Enea’s friends Alex and Carlo (the film’s director) decide to help Enea have his…
If you aren’t feeling completely depressed after seeing Michael Haneke’s new film Amour, you are one emotionless person. The film is about a hard truth everyone has to experience, but don’t often think about; the slow deterioration of someone that you love. Almost the entire plot of the film is solely made up of the…
When this film, which won the Palme D’or at Cannes, won Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globes, I was embarrassed to say that I never previously heard of the film. I made sure to remedy that by seeing the film as soon as possible. The film takes place in a small German town during…
After directing two feature-length stop-motion films under the production of Tim Burton (those being The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach), Henry Selick branches out on his own for Coraline. Of course, even though Burton is not involved with the film, you can feel a Burtonesque influence throughout. I thought the film…
Funny Games is not an entertaining film. I thought that I will make that clear. However, I will also say that I thought it was a very good film. It’s a horror film and it’s a shot-for-shot remake of an Austrian film of the same name by the same director. It’s a highly disturbing film….
