Stephen Dalton - The Film Verdict

The Belgian Wave

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 16, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Oldenburg 2023 |

Cult director Jérôme Vandewattyne uses a spate of real UFO sightings as the launchpad for ‘The Belgian Wave’, an incoherent but highly entertaining acid-punk sci-fi road movie about close encounters of the surreal kind.

Frames of Alicia

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 15, 2023 | Oldenburg 2023, Festivals |

A troubled young Swedish woman finds Copenhagen to be a town without pity in Danish director Adam Benjamin Mikkelsen’s slight, disjointed but emotionally powerful debut ‘Frames of Alicia’.

Enter the Clones of Bruce

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 15, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023 |

David Gregory’s entertaining documentary ‘Enter the Clones of Bruce’ chronicles the bizarre explosion in Bruce Lee lookalikes and copycat films that followed the martial arts superstar’s death 50 years ago.

Coup!

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 8, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2023 |

Writer-director duo Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman blend historical pandemic echoes with timeless political tensions in their old-fashioned but engaging class-war drama ‘Coup!’

Sky Peals

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 5, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2023 |

An alienated young man becomes fixated on his late father’s extra-terrestrial origins in debutant director Moin Hussein’s underpowered but appealingly strange inner-space odyssey ‘Sky Peals’.

Author: Stephen Dalton

The Belgian Wave

Frames of Alicia

Enter the Clones of Bruce

Coup!

Sky Peals