Beautiful Friend
A sociopathic amateur film-maker kidnaps the woman he wants to play his fantasy girlfriend role in Truman Kewley’s quietly chilling psycho-thriller debut ‘Beautiful Friend’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 16, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, Oldenburg 2023 |
A sociopathic amateur film-maker kidnaps the woman he wants to play his fantasy girlfriend role in Truman Kewley’s quietly chilling psycho-thriller debut ‘Beautiful Friend’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 16, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023 |
Spanish director F. Javier Gutiérrez’s atmospheric but underpowered horror western ‘The Wait’ offers a fistful of familiar supernatural tropes.
Read MorePosted 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.
Read MorePosted 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’.
Read MorePosted 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.
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