The hunter becomes the hunted in the tense and violent thriller Blood And Money, as Academy Award-nominee Tom Berenger (Platoon, Sniper) fights for his life in the sub-zero terrain of the North American wilderness. Retired war veteran Jim Reed (Berenger) heads out on a hunting trip in the Allagash backcountry…
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THE WIND **** USA 2018 Dir: Emma Tammi. 86 mins No one says a word for the first few, haunting minutes of Emma Tammi’s atmospheric feature debut. The audience is afforded glimpses of a stillbirth, a suicide and a sombre burial. A key character asks with muted despair “How did…
SEA FEVER **** Ireland / UK / USA / Sweden / Belgium 2019 Dir: Neasa Hardiman. 95 mins A subtle, eerie oceanic exercise in containment in the tradition of Carpenter’s THE THING, minus the horrific catharsis of visceral set pieces. Writer-director Neasa Hardiman’s character-driven feature debut has Hermione Corfield as…
SCORCHED EARTH * USA / Canada 2018 Dir: Peter Howitt. 96 mins A cataclysmic environmental disaster known as “Cloudfall” has biblically flooded the planet in the mid-21st century; 50 years on, air and water is precious in a barter economy, while toxins fill the air to the extent that people…
A YOUNG MAN WITH HIGH POTENTIAL **** Germany 2019 Dir: Linus de Paoli. 85 mins Adam lld Rohweder is outstanding in the title role as an agoraphobic, highly intelligent student who lives in a “rat cage” apartment and has the appearance and manner of a harmless geek. Something is up…