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Movie Reviews: CONTORTED and GUIMOON: THE LIGHTLESS DOOR (London Korean Film Festival)

Contorted Writer/director Kang Dong Hun’s Contorted (South Korea, 2022) looks great and is well acted but its screenplay is weighed down with horror movie cliches. The film opens intriguingly with preteen girl HeeWoo (Kim BoMin) seeing a paranormal...

Film Reviews: GHOSTING GLORIA and WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD (Lund Fantastic Film Festival)

Ghosting Gloria Ghost movie, supernatural fantasy, romantic comedy, sex comedy, literary comedy — charming Uruguayan feature Ghosting Gloria (Muerto con Gloria, 2021) is all of this and more. Codirected by husband-and-wife filmmaking team Marcela...

Film Review: Piggy (Lund Fantastic Film Festival)

Spanish chiller Piggy (Cerdita, 2022) is a terrific serial killer/coming-of-age/bullying and revenge mash-up that digs in deep on questions concerning doing what’s right, scapegoating, the dangers of a collective mindset, and more. Writer/director...

Movie Review: The Kindred (1987)

Ol' scientist type John (David Allen Brooks) is having one hell of a shit day. Not only has his mother Amanda (Planet of the Apes' Kim Hunter), a scientist as well, been in the shittiest of health, but she is screaming all manner of shit about a...