Ip Man 4 – Farewell, Sifu
He promised he was done and yet, here he comes again. Donnie Yen becomes the legendary Wing Chun master Ip Man one last time for the grand finale of the […]
Ip Man 4 : adieux au maître
Il avait promis en avoir fini avec ce personnage et pourtant, le revoilà. Donnie Yen endosse une dernière fois le rôle du légendaire maître de wing chun Ip Man pour […]
Hex — Transgressive ghost stories and hybridity
In 1980, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio was having a hard time keeping up with the competition. They had ruled the world of commercial Chinese-language films for decades but had […]
Messiah of Evil : Night of Reckoning at the American Frontier
Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz are known in Hollywood for their work with George Lucas: after writing American Graffiti, they script-doctored Star Wars, wrote Indiana Jones and the Temple of […]
Ad Astra : silence assourdissant dans l’infini
Reconfigurer la Destinée Manifeste.
Midsommar : le refus de la transcendance
L’extrême sophistication formelle du premier film d’Ari Aster, Hereditary, annonçait l’arrivée d’un cinéaste éloquent mais aussi manquant d’un peu de recul. Sa maîtrise époustouflante du langage cinématographique pour emplir de […]
Brightburn : Plus gore, moins loin
Les super-héros ayant le vent en poupe, il n’est pas surprenant de voir les codes être déclinés de toutes les façons possibles au cinéma de nos jours. Voici donc Brightburn, […]
NIFFF 2019 — Danes Do It Better: claustrophobie protéiforme du cinéma danois
Pour sa 19e édition, le Festival International du Film Fantastic de Neuchâtel (NIFFF) consacre une rétrospective à l’initiative New Danish Screens, un programme de la cinémathèque danoise ayant pour objectif […]
In Fabric – An uncompromising sensory assault
On the often well-beaten path of genre cinema stands an English filmmaker whose work defies all expectations. When his second feature film, Berberian Sound Studio, came out, Peter Strickland landed […]
John Wick 3 — Impasse dans la surenchère
Le soleil se couche sur une paisible soirée new-yorkaise lorsque soudain, la caméra pivote vers la droite pour révéler un monde accablé par le tonnerre et une pluie diluvienne. Le […]
John Wick 3 — Impasse and escalation
The sun is setting on a calm New York City evening when suddenly, the camera pans to the right to reveal a world burdened by thunder and heavy rain. It’s […]
Ghost of Guts Eater — Flying heads, intestines, and social order
The image is undeniably disturbing: an adult woman’s head with long black hair and blood-thirsty eyes haunts the night, effortlessly flying through the darkness. What of her body? Left lying […]
The Wandering Earth – China takes off towards the infinite
Chinese science-fiction cinema has a long history of unsure beginnings, failures, so-bad-it’s-good movies, exploitation flicks, as well as sporadic, intimist successes. Chinese-speaking sci-fi films exist since 1959, but The Wandering […]
The Wandering Earth : envol final de la Chine vers l’infini
Le cinéma de science-fiction chinois a une longue histoire de balbutiements, de ratages, de nanars, d’exploitation, de réussites sporadiques et intimistes. Les films sinophones de SF existent depuis 1959, mais […]
Interview with Lee Cronin
The Hole in the Ground premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and opened theatrically and on VOD in several markets in February and March. It has yet to make […]
The Hole in the Ground – The anguish of introspection
Has there ever been a more prolific era for Irish horror films? For the past ten years, more filmmakers from the Emerald Isle than ever have tried their hand at […]
