THE UNHEALER ** USA 2020 Dir: Martin Guigui. 94 mins Save for the support of one wealthy, pretty long-term friend (the appealing Kayla Carson), high school life is miserable for Pica-suffering Elijah Nelson. Unflatteringly nicknamed “Trash Boy” for his compulsion to eat almost anything, he takes solace in the love…
Browsing: Revenge
One of the most talked about movies of recent years, REVENGE lends ‘pitch-black humour and a cunning feminist agenda’ (★★★★ Daily Express) to the classic exploitation genre, and now Second Sight Films is giving this groundbreaking gore-fest the Limited Edition Blu-ray box set treatment. The release features stacks of brand…
FIRSTBORN **** Latvia 2017 Dir: Aik Karapetian. 93 mins After a drunken game at an Oriental-themed dinner party gets uncomfortably personal for middle-class couple Francis (Kaspars Znotins) and Katrina (Maija Doveika), they leave and are assaulted by a motorcycle-riding bag snatcher on the way home. Francis, in a bid to…
Artsploitation Films new release RONDO is having a special midnight showing on 9th August 2019 at Festival of Cinema NYC. Twisted, kinky and violent, Rondo is a highly stylized pulp noir revenge/murder melodrama that relishes in the dark underbelly of civility. Troubled war vet Paul (Luke Sorge) is told by…
Artsploitation Films have released the Latvian thriller FIRSTBORN directed by Aik Karapetian (The Man in the Orange Jacket) on DVD and Digital. The film is a subtle and quietly devastating thriller about a man whose masculinity is put into question by his wife after his feeble reaction to a mugging. He…