TROLL 2 – a film by Roar Uthaug – (SPOILERS) ⁓ Andreas Isaksen (Kim Falck) visits Professor Nora Tidemann at her home in Jötunheimen. (The mythical home of trolls, Jötunheimr, is one of the nine worlds of Norse mythology.) Isaksen …
THE KING TIDE – directed by Christian Sparkes – (some spoilers) ⁓ The opening scenes are full of mood and mystery. On an isolated island off the Newfoundland coast, Grace (Lara Jean Chorostecki) has a miscarriage on a stormy night. …
A SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE – a film by Geordie Sabbagh – SPOILERS ⁓ Tracy (Meghan Heffern), significant other to unpublished novelist Adam Loule (Dylan Taylor), has made French toast for breakfast. She sets a plate of it in front …
Les cinq diables (The Five Devils) – directed by Léa Mysius – SPOILERS ⁓ Eight-year-old Vicky Soler (Sally Dramé) lives in a small mountain village several hours north of Marseilles, somewhere between Grenoble and the five Aiguilles du Diable from …
TROLL – directed by Roar Uthaug – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Near Hjerkinn in Norway, workers tunnel through the Dovre mountains to build an extension to the Nordland Railway, which currently ends at Trondheim some 165 kilometers to the north. After …
CARMEN – a film by Valerie Buhagiar – SPOILERS ⁓ A lighthearted tale about the horrors of big religion, CARMEN takes place in an isolated Maltese village in the 1980s where the police station is across the street from the …
THE BLAZING WORLD – a film by Carlson Young – SPOILERS ⁓ Two decades ago, on a summer’s day in the deep south, Young Margaret Winter endures complementary traumas. She and her identical twin sister Elizabeth are near the pool …
MAYDAY – a film by Karen Cinorre – SPOILERS ⁓ This feminist fable is set in the psyche of Anastasia (Grace Van Patten), and as the story begins we find Ana waking up after a friend (Dimitri, played by Théodore …
KICKING BLOOD – a film by Blaine Thurier – SPOILERS ⁓ Birthdays don’t mean much to immortals, but Anna (Alanna Bale), a vampire of unspecified age, finds herself confronted with a birthday cake, complete with baroque icing and a single …
SHE NEVER DIED – Directed by Audrey Cummings – Written by Jason Krawczyk – SPOILERS ⁓ She (Olunike Adeliyi) is immortal, but not a vampire although she does manage to impale someone in the course of things. She eats people, …
THE SWARM (La Nuée)- directed by Just Philippot – SPOILERS ⁓ On a farm somewhere in the French countryside, Virginie Hébrard (Suliane Brahim) decides to raise locusts as a last ditch effort to survive. She has a mildly asthmatic, soccer-playing …
