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Though obvious what director / writer Renaud Gauthier was aiming to achieve with the comedy horror Aquaslash, it quickly becomes apparent that he fails to hit the mark by a mile. Clearly intended as a gory, blackly humorous send-up of…

Some films speak so pointedly to the period in which they're made, that you couldn't see them coming about at any other time. Take the new horror / drama from the Netherlands The Columnist, which manipulates the horrors surrounding the…

"The two lovers’ back and forth wouldn’t seem out of place in any domestic drama, and yet they cleverly subvert the context. Will isn’t leaving Evan for another person, but another planet: perhaps the most definitive goodbye there can be."

Although this was Flickfeast's 4th visit, Flatpack and Dudley Castle's Beware The Moon still creates an atmosphere of event cinema without equal.

The curse of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote strikes again. Amazon has now jumped ship from the project, meaning the film has now lost its US distribution. This happened amidst a continuing legal battle, where it was to be…

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Retribution is coming.

This week's Sound Bite features the sound of applause, as congratulations go to director, screenwriter and producer Paul Haggis, who was awarded the inaugural Evolution Vision Award at the 6th annual Mallorca Film Festival. Festival…

The first floor of the apartment block, through which all tenants must pass, is where the crime took place. On the second floor, its suspect. The third, a potential witness. If the pulpy premise of One Floor Below is enticingly…

Two years after an intimate tragedy shot tremors through a rural Swedish community, teenager John (Ulrik Munther) is released from a high security institute, and embraced by his father. The wide shot in which this happens could represent …