Another year, another fourth superhero film. And people wonder why there’s superhero fatigue going around, I know I have that. But, best to keep an open mind on these things – you may be surprised one day. I certainly was with the first Thor. Fun fact, I had actually skipped
By Last Caress. The Unraveling opens on a heroin addict going through the process of injecting his drug of choice. That heroin addict is Michael (Zack Gold), and he's servicing his addiction in a flophouse full of similarly addicted folk, almost all of whom are presently off inside themselves, far from
By Orla Smith. "When it hurts it means it's working". Those words, spoken by The Wound's withdrawn protagonist Xolani (Nakhane Touré), neatly summarises the cultural attitude the film depicts ― and rallies against. Director John Tengrove examines a South African tradition in the Xhosa community, designed to celebrate burgeoning manhood. Annually, teenage
By Marti Dols Roca. Historically there have been two ways of approaching sex related crimes on the seventh art: visually hinting what happened and dwelling on its consequences and implications or expounding on it leaving no room for the imagination and sometimes ending up closer to gore and sophisticated ultra violence
“Seventeen year old Miklós Varga’s plans to escape his migrant family and run away with his best friend Dan are crushed by the accidental death of his older brother Tomi. Only Mik knows the events that led to this tragedy, and he is suddenly forced to navigate his guilt and
