House of Sweat and Tears (aka Casa de Sudor y Lágrimas) is the debut from director Sonia Escolano; and it’s a promising start to her career, even if the film itself fails to deliver. House of Sweat and Tears is set in what looks like an underground bunker in an unnamed location where a religious …
Man-eaters. This is the maligning term often slung at gorgeous women with a ravenous appetite for men. It’s meant as a metaphor. But in the Israeli horror-comedy Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club, it’s literal. The titular secret society is made up of glamorous women who throw weekly dinner parties where men are guests of honor, invited to …
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With her messy love life and sticky fingers, the central character in Softness of Bodies has a timeless troubled-dame quality, but she’s not your typical femme fatale. A poet, barista and possible sociopath, she’s played by an insinuatingly wry Dasha Nekrasova with a bored slouch, and she wields her hand-rolled cigarettes with the ferocious ennui of a …
Japanese provocateur and innovator Ujicha’s Violence Voyager is one hell of a trip into the mind of a madman. Filmed in the super obscure, and off-the-wall animation style known as gekimation, Violence Voyager is an unforgettable experience both in terms of the insanity happening on screen, and the fascintating technical construction of the film. Gekimation is a style in which …
Kate Bosworth teamed with husband and filmmaker Michael Polish for their self-financed film Nona, short for No Name, which tells the story of a girl from Honduras who meets a charming boy who promises her safety in America, only to be led into the world of sex trafficking. The actress sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In …