Movie Reviews

Radioactive (2019)

Radioactive (2019) Pioneer. Genius. Rebel. Director Marjane Satrapi’s, Persepolis (2007), film Radioactive is an unbalanced and ultimately bland portrayal of Marie Curie, perhaps the best-known female scientist of all time. Through her pioneering work in the field of discovering the elements Radium and Polonium, she was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, an […]

Radioactive (2019)

Movie Reviews

Freaky (2020)

Freaky (2020) Basic switch. Killer new look. It’s hard to believe that it’s taken us this long to get a body-swap slasher movie. Similar to what filmmaker Christopher Landon and producer Jason Blum did with their ghoulish re-working of Groundhog Day (1993), with the one-two punch of Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day […]

Freaky (2020)

Movie Reviews

Fatman: A Unique Thriller About Santa Claus Battling a Hitman

Fatman is a unique hybrid that blends ultra-violence, cheeky world building and dark comedy – and it mostly works. It’s a wild film that introduces us to a world in which Chris Cringle (Mel Gibson) and his wife Ruth (Marianne Ruth-Bapiste), take on Military contracts during off-months, and children hire hitmen […]

Fatman: A Unique Thriller About Santa Claus Battling a Hitman

Movie Reviews

Film Review: Possessor

Following in the footsteps of his father, the iconic filmmaker David Cronenberg, writer and director Brandon Cronenberg dabbles in the ‘body horror’ sub-genre that his old man pioneered for his grisly sophomore feature Possessor. Revered hitwoman Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is at the centre of the sci-fi thriller, working for an organisation that uses brain-implant […]

Film review: Possessor

Movie Reviews

Proxima (2020)

A lot is simmering below the surface of Proxima, the daring space drama (which doesn’t actually show the proverbial “final frontier” at all, one of several fascinating directorial decisions made in the creation of this film) from Alice Winocour, who plucks a number of timely, incredibly relevant themes and throws them together into what can […]

Proxima (2020)

Movie Reviews

Classic Review – The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Director – David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia) Cast – William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa Plot – A group of British and American POW’s during WW2 find themselves helping the Japanese forces build a giant bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway as the fiercely […]

Classic Review – The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Animation

HEATWAVE

In the midst of a searing heatwave, two little children find a way to cool everyone down!

A playful stop motion short film animated in a hybrid techique between cut out, claynimation and thousands of replacements pieces.

Animated and Directed by
Fokion Xenos

HEATWAVE (2019)
Yakıcı bir sıcak dalgasının ortasında, iki küçük çocuk herkesi serinletmenin bir yolunu bulur!
Kesilip çıkarılmış, kilnimasyon ve binlerce yedek parça arasında melez bir teknikle canlandırılan eğlenceli bir stop motion kısa film.
Canlandıran ve Yöneten
Fokion Xenos
Movie Reviews

The Power of The Force Was Found in My In-Law’s Basement

The power of The Force was found in my in-law’s basement where my brother-in-law made room for everyone to team-assemble his latest LEGO set – the Mos Eisley Cantina: I helped build the central bar where Luke had a little tiff with a local. “I’m a collector,” he said as he opened the gigantic box […]

The Power of The Force Was Found in My In-Law’s Basement

Movie Reviews

SIDEWAYS

Güzel bir anın hemen öncesinin tadına varmak istediğiniz zamanlarda izlenmesi gereken bir film. Miles Raymond, bütün hayatı bir yazar olabilme hayalleriyle geçmiş, ama evliliğindeki gibi mesleğinde de başarısız olmuş, bir İngilizce öğretmenidir. En yakın arkadaşı Jack ise, hiç kimse tarafından tanınmayan bir televizyon oyuncusudur ve evlenmek üzeredir. Miles’ın son yazarlık denemesi de başarısızlıkla sonuçlanınca en […]

SIDEWAYS ( ALEXANDER PAYNE, 2005)

Comedy

Mixtape Marauders

A nine song visual mixtape following two young stoners into a world of mindless day jobs, petty drug deals and loud ass music.

Featuring Julianna Barwick, Father, Chastity Belt, Ought, Kari Faux, Tony Molina, Pillar Point, Comets on Fire, Jim Sullivan

Mixtape Marauders
Drama

Runon

All Luke and his mom have are two garbage bags full of clothes, and two tickets out of town on the midnight Greyhound. Like he’s assembling a puzzle, Luke has to figure out the why of it–all before the person they’re running from puts together the pieces.

Runon
Drama

Kiem Holijanda

The brothers Andi (13) en Florist (20) live in a poor and desolate village in Kosovo. By selling milk they earn just enough money to support the family. When Andi discovers a card of a Dutch porn star in their bedroom, he needs a telephone to watch it. He is so obsessed with it, he doesn’t notice his brother has chosen this day to say goodbye to him.

Kiem Holijanda
Drama

Long Branch

On a cold winter night, Lynn just wants a one-night stand. As she kisses the slightly dorky guy outside a club in Toronto, she thinks she’s found it. But he lives two hours away via public transit, which makes her “no strings attached” encounter suddenly complicated. As the couple get on the subway and then on a bus, what starts out as excitement gets awkward fast. But as things get real, what begins as a fleeting encounter becomes much more interesting. This sweet, winning romantic comedy is carried by its excellent script, as well as earnest, relatable performances by its lead actors. Captured with excellent camerawork and scored with dreamy indie rock, “Long Branch” captures what it’s like to be young, dealing with less than ideal adult lives and falling in love when you least expect it. The journey to a delicate, budding new relationship is filled with its obstacles and rocky moments, but by the film’s end, you’ll want to keep following this pair into the future.

A young woman finds a one-night stand. But he lives 2 hours away via public transit. | Long Branch