The original Secret Cinema. Screening this month at Edinburgh Film Festival, this documentary from Ilinca Calugareanu uncovers a secret film phenomenon in 1980s Romania – a country under the cosh of communism. In a world where borders are closed, television is absurdly censored, and a VCR costs the same as a new
Pernicious fits comfortably into the low-budget schlock horror market, where the script and performances tend to count for a lot less than the buckets of blood thrown at the screen and whatever sort of vicious menace has been conjured up to create said buckets. For the most part, Pernicious fulfills those
When his strong willed and overbearing girlfriend meets her untimely demise, Max starts to pull his life back together and falls for a girl with similar tastes. Unfortunately, just as his grieving stops and loving starts he finds his dead ex is a little harder to get rid of than
Tasked with documenting the end of life as we know it, 51 Degrees tells the story of Damon Miller (Moritz von Zeddelmann), a YouTube sensation whose life is changed forever after he takes a job for the UK Space Agency making a film about the very REAL threat of
Considering the scope of the story presented in Jessi Shuttleworth’s FEBRUARY, the short-form of the film—and its use within of brevity versus relative-elongation, incident versus time-between-incident—is an interesting choice that pays off profoundly. An examination not of the slow-motion of trauma experienced (in this case a multi-victim school shooting) but
