VIDEOMAN (a.k.a. Videomannen) **** Sweden 2018 Dir: Kristian A. Soderstrom. 94 mins A unique, disarming love story recommended to anyone who has ever had a debate about whether Rosalba Neri’s enthusiastic fingering in SLAUGHTER HOTEL was body-doubled. Italian immigrant Stefan Sauk once ran the best video store in Sweden (his…
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AGALMATOPHILIA **** USA 2018 Dir: Jared Masters, Brittany Ballantyne. 72 mins A beguilingly strange, largely improvised Hollywood-set oddity, centered around director Jared Masters’ workaholic desk clerk, whose office space in this unspecified time frame is sparsely decorated with rotary phones, manual typewriters and old television sets. He’s an obsessive-compulsive paranoiac…
The feature film debut from award-winning Swedish director Kristian A. Söderström, and one of Time Out’s top picks to see at FrightFest 2018, VIDEOMAN celebrates the golden days of VHS, the Italian giallo and the films of Mike Leigh. Let’s face it, social realism and gialli are not genres you…
AN HOUR TO KILL * USA 2018 Dir: Aaron K Carter. 96 mins A pair of low rent hitman – including excruciatingly “spiritual” pink-shirted Frankie Pozos – have the eponymous hour to kill while heading to North Hollywood for their next job, at the behest of their bewigged boss Mr…
ONE CUT OF THE DEAD *** Japan 2017 Dir: Shin’ichirô Ueda. 96 mins A below average director is chosen because of his “make do” attitude toward film making by a new channel specializing in zombie movies to shoot and direct their first show. A live, one shot zombie movie featuring…