BELOVED BEAST *** USA 2018 Dir: Jonathan Holbrook. 173 mins A young girl is forced to live with her substance abusing aunt following the death of her parents. Nina, the young orphaned girl befriends an escaped mental patient and faces an onslaught of issues, encountering monsters in many guises as…
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BALLET BLANC ** USA 2019 Dir: Anne-Sophie Dutoit. 89 mins Writer-director Anne-Sophie Dutoit’s film is an ambitious dialogue / character-driven three-hander, largely set in two rooms and employing multiple narrators via a unique framing device. The first voice we hear, disarmingly, is the throaty, Mercedes McCambridge-like cadence of Mrs Willis…
LORE ** USA 2017 Dir: Christian Larsen, Brock Manwill. 87 mins With his parents going through a painful divorce, a 17 year old boy heads off alone with his backpack to the mountains and doesn’t come back. In one of his half-dozen or so cameos this week, Sheriff Eric Roberts…
POWERBOMB *** USA 2020 Dir: B.J. Colangelo & R. Zachary Shildwachter. 80 mins At what price does a shot at a wrestling title come? In Powerbomb we are introduced in a fun and familial way to the life of semi-pro wrestler Matt Cross (played well here by himself) as he…
PERFECT SKIN *** UK 2018 Dir: Kevin Chicken. 110 mins Perfect Skin is your average love story. Boy meets girl. Boy kidnaps girl. Boy “transforms” girl by covering her unmarked skin in tattoos and piercings. Richard Brake plays Bob Reid, the tattoo artist that Katia (Natalia Kostrzewa) visits while staying…