THE KING TIDE – directed by Christian Sparkes – (some spoilers) โ 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A SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE โ a film by Geordie Sabbagh โ SPOILERS ⁓ Tracy (Meghan Heffern), significant other to unpublished novelist Adam Loule (Dylan Taylor), has made French toast for breakfast.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 Lรฉa Mysius – SPOILERS Eight-year-old Vicky Soler (Sally Dramรฉ) lives in a small mountain village several hours north of Marseilles, somewhere between Grenoble and the five Aiguilles du Diable from which …
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 explosives …
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 church and …
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 and …
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 Thรฉodore Pellerin) …
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 candle. …
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, but …
THE SWARM (La Nuรฉe)- directed by Just Philippot – SPOILERS On a farm somewhere in the French countryside, Virginie Hรฉbrard decides to raise locusts as a last ditch effort to survive. She has a mildly asthmatic, soccer-playing son named Gaston …
