If anything, the only true revelation regarding Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) is how boring, uninventive and derivative a horror film can get. Movies, which are based on video games, carry the burdensome weight of living up to fans’ expectations, meanwhile … Continue reading Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) Review

Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell make fun of Eurovision in this new Netflix Original, and while they mostly succeed in the undertaking, the real scene stealer is Dan Stevens (Apostle (2018)). All of Europeans know that Eurovision – the multinational … Continue reading Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga (2020) Review

In Them That Follow (2019), a girl is torn apart between her sense of duty toward a despot father and his religious congregation, and the love she has for an atheist boy. In an ecstatic sign of belief, pastor Lemuel … Continue reading Them That Follow (2019) Review

In the Israeli horror The Golem (2018) filmmakers Paz Brothers adapt a tale about a monster that protects a Jewish community from hostile locals in the 17th century Lithuania. According to Jewish religion, a golem is an anthropomorphic creature that … Continue reading The Golem (2018) Horror Review

Floria Sigismondi’s The Turning (2020) scares with its lack of substance and out-of-focus plot – rather than with the actual degree of frights delivered. When Stanley Kubrick premiered The Shining (1980), numerous critics panned the way the film steered away … Continue reading The Turning (2020) Horror Review

An exercise in below-average crime drama, El Guardian Invisible (2017) finds itself trapped between too many characters, local fables and soap opera particles, messily clustered into one movie. Literature and cinema coexist in symbiosis, with the latter sourcing a lot … Continue reading El Guardian Invisible (2017) Review

Alejandro Aja’s Crawl (2019) clones ideas from various survival thrillers, however it is just as derivative as a movie about fighting a deadly croc could be. What is Crawl (2019) about? Florida is about to be hit by a huge … Continue reading Crawl (2019) Review

Once in a while, a film such as One Cut Of The Dead (2017) pops out of nowhere – a no-holds-barred fun, which switches gears in a split of a second and overcomes its minute budget with confidence and wit. … Continue reading One Cut Of The Dead (2017) Review – Ingenious Example Of A Tiny Budget With A Big Heart

Lost Girls (2020) is a sloppy drama, which drags for the most part and never finds its focus. The topic it touches, however, is relevant and so deserved a more thoughtful approach. One important thing about reviewing true crime stories … Continue reading Lost Girls (2020) Review

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985) is an ethnographic documentary, stitched from materials shot by experimental filmmaker Maya Deren shortly after her death. Through words and images, Deren invites to a world of rhythmic drums, bare-feet dancing and … Continue reading Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985) Review

Darlin’ (2019) bites likes its protagonist, but only occasionally. A vast majority of the film is just a horrendous mess. You can call call it a hunch, but when an easily forgettable horror movie gets a sequel almost 10 years … Continue reading Darlin’ (2019) Horror Movie Review

In Creep 2 (2017) Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass return with a sequel to their tiny-budget thriller. It’s more bizarre than its predecessor, and much more fun too. I could bet that when Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass started writing … Continue reading Creep 2 (2017) Review

Advantages of Travelling by Train (2019) is a bold movie, and often entertaining, however it crosses several lines which play out badly. In consequence, it’s neither deep and thought-provoking, nor is it entirely joyful and bonkers to become a cult … Continue reading Advantages of Travelling by Train (2019) Review