Bring Her Back: Hollow Horror From Messy Misery
Pure misery, mean-spirited and endless cruelty that doesn't have the slightest inkling of how to leverage that cruel energy into something impactful.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Series X): Always Parrying its Own Potential
The highs are high but the lows are low. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is persistent mix of satisfaction and disappointment, of potential and eventual failure. A great premise is thrown to the wayside, replaced with a confused and unsatisfying narrative focus where plot ploughs through all else. Combat and music
SIFF 2025: Souleymane's Story // Bitter Gold
Souleymane's Story
dir. Boris Lojkine
The humming neon betrays a sense of extant hopelessness, the rain slicked Parisian streets bustling with life but only on the surface – the city of romance and dreams built on the back of migrant hustle, people desperately working and clinging onto distant possibility.
SIFF 2025: Happyend // Cloud
Happyend
dir. Neo Sora
Carves a neo-fascist dystopian cyberpunk landscape out of negative space, a lo-fi exploration of disaffected youth in the spirit of Blue Spring or Rebels of the Neon God. Adolescence in search of catharsis and connection pushed into authoritarian structures and regressive ideals, the throes of angst
SIFF 2025: Good Boy // Chain Reactions
Good Boy
dir. Ben Leonberg
Wields a sharp understanding of the semiotics of horror to generate a potent atmospheric dread, effectively communicating its ideas through the soulful eyes of its canine protagonist. The novelty lies entirely in its shifted perspective offering, but it never wavers on delivering the expected thrills
SIFF 2025: New Jack Fury // 40 Acres
New Jack Fury
dir. Lanfia Wal
Somewhere between throwback blaxploitation and modern day 80s exploitation spoof, the pure dedication to wanton absurdity and low budget cheese makes this a mostly delightful romp, if not one that overplays its hand even at 84 minutes. It's a visual effects showcase
I'm Thinking of Spoiling Things: Sinners // Warfare // The Shrouds
May 18, 2025. The US and the UK. Two film critics take podcasting positions in support of a tactical spoiling operation. This podcast uses only their memories. Every effort has been made to recreate these critics' thoughts as they experienced them while watching these films, a revolutionary approach to