A mysterious signal leads two exploratory space vehicles to the fog-covered planet of Aura. While attempting to land one ship crashes with the loss of all hands, while the crew of the other start attacking one another while under some … Continue reading REVIEW: Planet of the Vampires (1965)
Ushio Shinohara is an 80 year-old Japanese artist living in New York. He has made his reputation on the back of a prolonged series of abstract paintings that he creates by dipping a pair of boxing gloves into paint and … Continue reading REVIEW: Cutie and the Boxer (2013)
Lars Ericksson (Will Ferrell) and Sigrit Ericksdóttir (Rachel McAdams) are aspiring musicians in an Icelandic fishing community with one dream: to represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest. When an unexpected accident takes out all of the other candidates, … Continue reading REVIEW: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Kleinman (Woody Allen) is forcibly woken in the middle of the night by an angry mob, demanding he join them in tracking down a serial killer. Meanwhile the sword-swallower (Mia Farrow) at a local circus leaves her unfaithful clown boyfriend … Continue reading REVIEW: Shadows and Fog (1991)
Three bachelors live together in a lavish New York apartment. While actor Jack Holden (Ted Danson) is shooting a film in Turkey, his baby Mary is left on the doorstep and flatmates Peter Mitchell (Tom Selleck) and Michael Kellam (Steve … Continue reading REVIEW: Three Men and a Baby (1987)
Twenty-seven years after a group of children ventured into the sewers of Derry, Maine, to defeat a mysterious shapeshifting killer, a new spate of murders reveals that what they thought was dead has returned: and a promise to come home … Continue reading REVIEW: It: Chapter Two (2019)
Nikki Ferris (Hayley Mills) travels with her musicologist aunt (Joan Greenwood) to the Greek island of Crete. There she meets the charming stranger Mark Camford (Peter McEnery), and gets pulled into a life-or-death adventure against a murderous thief (Eli Wallach). … Continue reading REVIEW: The Moon-Spinners (1964)
A job advertisement is posted with a difference: the only requirement is that the applicant must not have been to the theatre before. The job? To spend an entire year watching theatre, dance, and other live performance, and to review … Continue reading REVIEW: A Year Full of Drama (2019)
Kai lives a sullen life in the coastal Hinashi Town with his umbrella-making grandfather and recently divorced father. Kai plays in a teen band with his friends Kunio and Yuho, though he is thinking of quitting. When a trip to … Continue reading REVIEW: Lu Over the Wall (2017)
Alice (Ane Dahl Torp), recently divorced from her husband Mattias (Sverrir Gudnason), receives a crying late-night call from her young son Vincent (Troy Lundkvist). Concerned for his welfare, and that of his teenage sister Elina (Tintin Poggats Sarri), Alice kidnaps … Continue reading REVIEW: Charter (2020)
