Banger
Drugs, rap music and reckless hunger for fame prove to be a potent cocktail in Czech writer-director Adam Sedlák’s enjoyably cartoonish comedy thriller ‘Banger’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 6, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |
Drugs, rap music and reckless hunger for fame prove to be a potent cocktail in Czech writer-director Adam Sedlák’s enjoyably cartoonish comedy thriller ‘Banger’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 6, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |
Actor-director Christos Passalis draws on his Greek Weird Wave roots for ‘Silence 6-9’. a cryptic but mostly impressive debut feature.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 5, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022, Spotlight, Tribeca |
Director Alexandre Philippe’s undisciplined but insightful documentary ‘Lynch/Oz’ explores the influence of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ on David Lynch’s surreal cinematic universe.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 4, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |
A young Georgian woman struggles to overcome stifling sexism and emotional trauma in director Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze’s worthy but muted chamber drama ‘A Room of My Own’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 3, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022, Spotlight |
Argentinean director Marco Berger turns his queer eye on the straight guys in ‘Horseplay’, a darkly funny critique of homophobic machismo.
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