RED ROOM * Ireland 2017 Dir: Stephen Gaffney. 95 mins Red Room — uncompromising, uncomfortable and brutal, but is it worth it? Red Room is the directorial debut of Stephen Gaffney, it tells the story of Kyra (Amy Kelly), a young woman snatched from the streets during a night-out and introduced to…
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THE 11TH PATIENT *** USA 2019 Dir: Derek Cole. 80 mins Is fear all in the mind? And can it be controlled? Some of the answers you seek may lie within this film that starts with us joining some kind of strange psychiatric hospital in a fear laden offering from…
RAVAGE ** USA 2019 Dir: Teddy Grennan. 77 mins After escaping a harrowing confrontation, photographer Harper Sykes (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) lies in bed talking to Superintendent Slayton (Michael Weaver) about what led her there. Regaling the story about her latest assignment documenting nature in the area, she ends up stumbling across…
THE TUNNEL (a.k.a. Tunnelen) *** Norway 2019 Dir: Pål Øie. 105 mins Tagline: “Two roads in – no way out”. I reckon that Norwegian cinema is a decade or two behind American cinema, because we have already endured a series of disaster films previously in the 1970’s. Various reviews have…
I AM REN *** Poland. 2019. Dir: Piotr Ryczko. 75 mins Hack attacks on large companies, institutions; even countries, are part of organized warfare. The idea of how to deal with everyday tech is dealt with astonishing melancholia in the Polish film I AM REN (2019), also known as JESTEM…