Tag: Mike Downey

Girls on Wire | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Mad Bills to Pay: Qu Stages Miserabilist Soap Opera If Girls on Wire settles on anything clear to say it’s quite simply that crime doesn’t...

Green Border | Review

The Good Pole: Holland’s Humanitarian Drama a Steady Drizzle of Misery Porn The difference between an exploitation vs. a social issue film can sometimes be...

When The Light Breaks | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Grieving Rights: Runarsson Explores Interrupted Mourning For his fourth narrative feature, Iceland’s Rúnar Rúnarsson returns to themes of emotional disruption with When the Light Breaks....

Servants | Review

A Separate Peace: Ostrochovský Crafts a Church Noir for Sophomore Feature For his sophomore narrative feature, Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovský recuperates a uniquely chilling scenario...

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2026 Cannes: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Selected for Cannes Premiere (!?)

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2026 Cannes: Mysius, Kreutzer, Harari, Grisebach, Herry, Bourgeois-Taquet Among New Faces in the Palme d’Or Comp

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2026 Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Quentin Dupieux & Bertrand Mandico on the Croisette

The Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and...