Author: KisaFilms

Eva Victor’s directorial debut, Sorry, Baby, tells the story of Agnes, a literature professor. Played by Victor, Agnes lives in a New England town and works at a small liberal arts college. We first meet her just after she has received tenure, when an old friend, Lydie, played by Naomi Ackie, comes to stay. As […]

Mary Bronstein’s second film, and her first in seventeen years, following 2008’s Yeast, is a vision of parenthood, especially motherhood, as a fugue state, a fever dream that collapses and absorbs reality. Rose Byrne plays Linda, mother of a young girl who is never named, played by Delaney Quinn, who suffers from an eating disorder […]

Stephen King has many registers but one of his most underrated might be described as surreal sentimentality – modern fairy tales that are most vibrant and dynamic when they remain on the cusp of horror but never quite give themselves over to it. While this tonality crops up quite often in his shorter works, it’s […]

This is a hard film to watch and it needs to be. During the Israeli occupation of Gaza there have been countless war crimes committed against the Palestinian people, this film being focused on the killing of Hind Rajab by the IDF. The film does this by focusing on the call between her and the […]

David Lynch’s incredible neo-noir mystery Blue Velvet shows the darkness in the underbelly of a small suburban town, then reveals the lightness to be found.

Written by Matthew Robinson and directed by Gore Verbinski, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die attempts to grapple with our current AI tipping-point. The main character is simply the “Man,” played by Sam Rockwell, who has returned time after time from the future to a Los Angeles diner in an effort to recruit the right […]

If there are any lessons to be learned from The Drama, it’s that you should avoid playing silly party games like “The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done” before your wedding.  If it can’t be avoided, for God’s sake don’t be honest.  Pick something way down on your list of awful things that won’t give your […]

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy offers an interesting take on the Egyptology horror genre. It’s perhaps best described as being about two very different families, one American, one Egyptian. We spend most of the film with the American family, the Cannons, who are living in Cairo, and whose life is thrown into chaos when their daughter […]