Grimmfest announces May Madness, a startling selection of double bills for the late May Bank Holiday Weekend. May is here, a month with not one, but two Bank Holidays. The Maypoles are going up, the wells are being dressed. Summer is ycumen in. Or it would be, were the UK…
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GRIMMFEST EASTER EDITION: APRIL 1st – APRIL 5th Grimmfest announces the launch of our Grimmfest Easter Edition, a new annual event, taking place over the Easter Weekend, and complimenting the long-established festival in October. Easter is traditionally a time for rebirth, renewal, resurrection. But as the Pandemic continues to…
RENT-A-PAL ***** USA 2020 Dir: Jon Stevenson. 108 mins Set in 1990, the feature debut for writer-director Jon Stevenson offers nostalgia-inducing, almost fetishistic images of the mechanics of a VHS top loader. Albeit within a narrative propelled by a reminder of the days when society’s loners would attempt to forge…
MAX RELOAD AND THE NETHER BLASTERS ***** USA 2020 Dirs: Scott Conditt, Jeremy Tremp. 100 mins Max Jenkins a video game store assistant is thrust into a surrealistic world where reality and fiction are intertwined. When he accidentally unleashes hell on earth by unlocking a hidden level that has a…
THE OAK ROOM *** Canada 2020 Dir: Cody Calahan. 90 mins The power of stories, how they are told and who they affect lie at the heart of this contemplative thriller. When RJ Mitte (‘Breaking Bad’) walks into a bar during a blizzard he is not a welcome visitor. He…