Foreign Articles

Spoiler-Free Review: GRANDMA (TETA) (The 32nd New York African Film Festival) 

Official synopsis: While living in isolation, Mona (Mona Hala) and her young son Mickey (Shams Mohamed) await the birth of a new baby while still carrying the weight of the boy’s grandma’s recent death. When her son begins listening to her pregnant...

Movie Review: Fear In The Philippines: The Complete Blood Island Films (1959 – 1970) – Severin Blu-ray

Comprised of the entirety of The Blood Island films (if the title of this review didn't tip you off)... a series of monster-filled mayhem dreamed up by producer/director Eddie Romero and producer Kane W. Lynn (joined by co-director Gerardo de Leon...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: THE BLACK HOLE, VAMPIRE ZOMBIES . . . FROM SPACE! and LUNATIC: THE LUNA VACHON STORY (Calgary Underground Film Festival 2025) 

The Black Hole (Must Auk; Finland/Estonia, 2024) Official synopsis: Residents of an apartment block district long for a better life, but when a black hole appears mysteriously in a lilac bush, they have to face aliens, a giant spider and an...

Movie Review: Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970) – Severin Blu-ray

Hot n' horny "middle-aged"  Kath (Beryl Reid, whom you may remember from 1973's absolutely awesome teen biker gang and magic filled experience that can only be Psychomania... or The Death Wheelers as it's sometimes known) flitters her scantily-clad...