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Guadalajara 2026 Review: THE AWAKENING (El Despertar), Echoes of History, Buried in Confusion

Guadalajara 2026 Review: THE AWAKENING (El Despertar), Echoes of History, Buried in Confusion

An elite military unit goes deep into the Colombian jungle to eliminate a strategic target. However, once they have completed the mission the unit finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives as the violence awakens supernatural forces in the surrounding forest.    The team has unknowingly trespassed on the territory of Mobuya, the protective spirit of a sacred site, once occupied by the land’s indigenous peoples. They were a people who met a tragic end at the hands of an expedition of Spanish conquistadors. This expedition met a similar fate at the hands of Mobuya and their story echoes alongside that of the military unit as it desperately seeks a way out from danger. History is repeating itself.   Rojas is the most…

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Sitges2026: Reveals The Projects For Fantastic 7 at Marche du Film

Sitges2026: Reveals The Projects For Fantastic 7 at Marche du Film

Marche du Film is a great time to be a genre fan because not only is the market full of productions looking for international sales but our friends at festivals and co-pros around the world gather en masse to drum up interest in future projects as well.    Our friends at Sitges announced the lineup for their Fantastic 7 program this year. Spanning the breadth of sub genres there will be a little bit of everything, from everywhere. The complete lineup of projects is in the gallery below with good synopses for each one.    1, 2, 3, 4… up to 7 titles, each selected by a major film festival, will make up the 8th edition of Fantastic 7.   The number 7 will once…

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Friday One Sheet: THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN

Friday One Sheet: THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN

What went wrong here, exactly? Normally, this column is a celebration of novel, or exceptionally designed key art from around the world. Today, however we shall take a look at one of the worst posters of the year, one that sits somewhere in the Uncanny Valley, coupled with a kind of generic laziness.  This hurts a bit, because I quite liked Olivier Assayas’s peek into the Soviet collapse of the 1990s, and the evolution of the Ruskiy Mir with the rise of industry Oligarchs and Vladimir Putin to reinvent the state TV as a more media-savvy entity charged to whip the population into a frenzy of hate. I loved Paul Dano and Jude Law’s performances, as the political artist and the aspiring dictator, in The…

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Calgary Underground 2026 Review: CLAIRE’S HAT: THE UNMAKING OF A FILM

Calgary Underground 2026 Review: CLAIRE’S HAT: THE UNMAKING OF A FILM

It seems strange to be writing a review for a film that is over 20 years old, about another film that few have seen.   Given its rogue construction, and unorthodox structure and style, Claire’s Hat has been screened publicly fewer than five times in the 24 years since its completion. The agreement with Hungarian-Canadian mega-producer of the film, and Toronto big-wig, Robert Lantos (ExistenZ, Being Julia, Johnny Mnemonic, The Sweet Hereafter, and of course, Picture Claire) is that director Bruce McDonald has to not only ask permission every time to show it, but also be present in the room during any screening.   I remember being at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of McDonald’s Canadian caper film, Picture Claire, back in the day…

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