FF 2025 – PENANCE: Action ex nihilo
For a little while there, it feels like Penance will be unstoppable, the perfect avatar of the heights micro-budget actioners can reach.
FF 2025: ROAD TO VENDETTA – Action is a Flat Circle
Feels like the work of a diligent student who tries to imitate his idols.
FF 2025: LUGER – The Inevitability of Violence
Have you ever wondered what would a gritty urban thriller/beat ’em up look like if it were set in Madrid and treated violence realistically?
The Furious – Le spectacle corporel virtuose comme vecteur de syncrétisme et d’innovation
L’expertise combinée de Kenji Tanigaki et Kensuke Sonomura est synonyme de mouvement perpétuel, d’une capacité à attirer l’attention, à faire naître les émotions, et à provoquer des réactions physiques chez le public.
VIFFF24 – AIMER PERDRE : fissures cinématographiques
Une tranche de vie, brute, grotesque, et hilarante dans son authenticité.
VIFFF24 – SISTER MIDNIGHT : Naissance d’un vampire punk
Un documentaire qui transcende l’espace et le temps, la réalité et la fiction.
FF 2024 – AJ GOES TO THE DOG PARK: The Infinite Possibilities of Indie Filmmaking
Live-action Looney Tunes logic for a-gag-a-minute experience in creative filmmaking.
FF 2024 – ESCAPE FROM THE 21st CENTURY: Time Travel, Street Fighter II, and The End of Adolescence
Action sci-fi coming-of-age pop culture remix. Too much?
FF 2024 – DON’T MESS WITH GRANDMA: The Home Invasion Subversion
Micheal Jai White in a home invasion action comedy? You’re talking my language!
FF 2024 – GHOST KILLER: The Kinetic Synergy of Modern Japanese Actioners
Action master Kensuke Sonomura strikes again!
FCAL24 – LA MÈRE DE TOUS LES MENSONGES : documenter au-delà de la réalité
Un documentaire qui transcende l’espace et le temps, la réalité et la fiction.
BIG BAD FILM FEST 2 – BANGKOK DOG: Can Thai Action Cinema Rise From its Ashes?
D.Y. Sao and Brian Le face off (again).
NYAFF 2024: BABY ASSASSINS NICE DAYS – Taking it to the Next Level
The Babies have reached their peak.
NYAFF 2024: OPERATION UNDEAD – ZOMBIFYING THAI WAR CINEMA
Zombies are everywhere but they’re also adaptable – actually, their ubiquity might be linked to their malleability. Zombies can be urban, horrifying, comedic, romantic, spatial even… so why not use […]
Cannes 2024 – THE SUBSTANCE : la publicité comme moyen d’accusation
Le film de Coralie Fargeat transforme la monstruosité de la publicité en une publicité de la monstruosité.
Cannes 2024 – OH, CANADA: the power of storytelling
Schrader succeeds perfectly in portraying Leonad’s stream of consciousness, of a person suffering from senility, or at least not completely lucid, using a fragmented narrative that reflects the mind of the protagonist.
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