by Joseph Perry | Apr 9, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller, Trailers
Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges; Canada, 2023) Pascal Plante’s French-language Canadian chiller Red Rooms deftly combines character study, psychological thriller, and courtroom drama. The film follows the obsession of two women with a serial killer suspect on trial for...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 3, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Following is a roundup of seven of the short films that screened at San Francisco’s Unnamed Footage Festival 2024, shot mostly in found footage or verité styles. Homebody Home surveillance cameras provide the footage for writer/director Andrew J. Paulsen’s Homebody,...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 3, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi
The Becomers (2024) Writer/director Zach Clark’s science-fiction comedy The Becomers is one of the more unique offerings in the subgenre of alien-body-snatchers cinema. It follows the travails of two genderless extraterrestrial lovers who have left their home...