Berlin Film Festival
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Aujourd’hui’ is a Colorful, Sunny Exploration of Death
In his last day on the planet, Satché (Saul Williams) doesn’t go sky diving, and he doesn’t go skinny dipping. He probably doesn’t even have…
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Death For Sale’ is Wasted Youth in a Desperate Moroccan Metro
In Death For Sale, the three best friends that anyone could ever have falter under the weight of their petty crime lives and the economic…
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears’ is a Revenge Film Disguised as…
Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears’ is a Revenge Film Disguised as an Arthouse Staple Based on title alone, would you…
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Headshot’ is Confused But Not Concussive
Based on Win Lyovarin’s novel, Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah) is a noir assassin story that features a killer who takes a bullet to the…
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Reluctant Revolutionary’ Captures the Bloody Cost of Freedom
After last year’s Arab Spring, there will undoubtedly be a host of documentaries and narrative projects with Middle Eastern revolution chanting from their cores. It…
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Iron Sky’ is a Blitzkrieg of Boring Bad
The promise of Iron Sky is a great and wondrous one. It’s Moon Nazis. Moon Nazis, people. Swirl it around in your mind for a…
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Mai-wei’ is Brutal, Bombastic But Too Broad
On a hillside overlooking the beaches of Normandy, American soldiers surround a Korean and a Japanese man wearing Nazi uniforms. This is the second-most intriguing…
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We’re Bringing the Berlin Film Festival To You
So you can’t afford the plane ticket (or you’re afraid they’ll show Mr. Popper’s Penguins on your cross-Atlantic flight). So you can’t stand to wait…