by Joseph Perry | Mar 26, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
Sleep (South Korea, 2023) A sleepwalking man becomes a danger to his family in writer/director Jason Yu’s eerie feature Sleep. HyunSu (Lee SunKyun) and SooJin (Jung YuMi) are a married couple expecting their first child. HyunSu begins having bouts of somnambulism that...
by Joseph Perry | Mar 22, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Short Films
Apotemnofilia The titular condition is the desire of amputation for a healthy limb, and writer/director Jano Pita’s Spanish horror short Apotemnofilia finds actress Clara (Lucía Azcoitía) dealing with that as her highly anticipated post-pregnancy comeback play is...
by Joseph Perry | Mar 18, 2024 | Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi
Director Thomas Cailley’s The Animal Kingdom (Le régne animal; France and Belgium, 2023) tackles the well-tread science fiction concept of “Can mutants and humans get along?” previously explored in X-Men comics and movies, and films such as 2018’s Freaks. Although not...
