Film Review: Chronicles of a Wandering Saint (2024)
Celebrating life, not the afterlife, Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s feature film debut Chronicles of a Wandering Saint mixes folklore, religion, and magic inContinue Reading
Category: Marie O’Sullivan’s Film Reviews
Sleep: Raindance Film Festival 2024
A young couple’s sleep becomes disrupted by the husband’s increasingly bizarre and dangerous sleepwalking. Jason Yu’s feature film debut Sleep plays atContinue Reading
National Anthem – Raindance Film Festival 2024
A young man’s journey of queer self-discovery in the Western landscape of New Mexico, Luke Gilford’s feature film debut National Anthem isContinue Reading
Falling into Place: Raindance Film Festival 2024
Aylin Tezel takes on the combined role of director, actor, and writer in her feature debut Falling into Place, which isContinue Reading
Es Brennt/It’s Burning: Raindance Film Festival 2024
Based on real events in Germany, writer/director Erol Afsin’s debut feature has important things to say about racial hatred andContinue Reading
Film Review: Evil Does Not Exist
A gently paced, contemplative eco-thriller with a sudden brutal twist reunites the musical talent of Eiko Ishibashi and the visualContinue Reading
The Teachers’ Lounge / Das Lehrerzimmer – MANIFF 2024
An outstanding performance from Leonie Benesch in Ilker Çatak’s German-language Oscar-nominated The Teachers’ Lounge / Das Lehrerzimmer is another in the lineContinue Reading
The Convert – MANIFF 2024
A lay minister’s battle-scarred past draws him into unanticipated bloody conflicts upon his arrival in 19th century New Zealand. StarringContinue Reading
Film Review: Eureka (2024)
A lawless town in America’s ‘Wild West’, a Reservation in South Dakota, and the Amazon rainforest are the settings forContinue Reading
Film Review: Restore Point / Bod obnovy (2024)
A detective’s investigation of a double murder which could involve a big tech company and its activist adversaries takes several twistsContinue Reading