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Massacre Time (Tempo di Massacro, Il Bruto e la Bestia), a Western directed by Lucio Fulci (known for The Beyond and House By the Cemetery) opens with a scene that could fit nicely into the horror movies that Shotgun Fullback will later become infamous for. While lurking in the woods, Jason “Junior” Scott (Nino Castelnuovo, […]

Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through faces. It takes enormous trust on the part of a director to allow this to happen, to let the faces do most of the heavy lifting. “Daddio”, written and directed by Christy Hall, is a film about faces, and this is pretty extraordinary

The planet Sargacia has Finders, who are intergalactic police. They’ve assigned Abraxas and Secundus to a particular case. Abraxas has been a Finder for almost ten thousand years. Relying on the Answer Box, a device that every Finder has and which works as a scanner and communicator, Abraxas is able to locate any object from

There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But it’s rare to see the two subjects intertwined so purposely as in “June Zero.” The idea to fold it all into an anthology of interconnected short films might be unique. “June Zero” is directed by an American filmmaker, Jake Paltrow (brother of

Few could contest the fact that Oliver Reed experienced some highlights throughout his career in cinema. He acted in films directed by Joseph Losey, Ken Russell, David Cronenberg, Nicolas Roeg, and Terry Gilliam, and was once briefly considered as a potential replacement for Sean Connery as James Bond. Not a great lover of the ‘Hollywood

When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive? Viewers’ sympathies are worked over throughout the grim Austrian folk horror drama “The Devil’s Bath,” a dreadful period piece about a pious woman who seems doomed by her circumstances. Agnes (Anja Plaschg), an unhappily married woman who prays to God for mercy, makes

From what I can tell, every type of genre exists within the indie film realm from all corners of the planet, and over the years we have witnessed some very impressive works, the one thing that usually drags a production’s impression down is the ‘artificial’ dialogue in the movie. It is strange that big-budget films

A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak” is swift to announce in its early moments that we are in the hands of a skillful stylist. It’s pitch black and stormy when the tale begins. There is a knock on some door by a fearful man whose face we don’t see

This year, Pegasus was among the strongest competitors for the Spring Festival holiday in China, ranked alongside The Wandering Earth and Crazy Alien. Written by Han Han, Pegasus is more literate than other films competing at the box office which was his goal when making it. This is evident in the film as it detaches

Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so happens, makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel…okay, I’ll stop. But what, really, is the, or are the, function or functions or capability or capabilities of music? By simply using the word as the title for her new motion picture, writer/director Angela Schanelec invites