Alan Cumming stands in for a legendary student of Glasgow’s Bearsden Academy in My Old School. In 1993, a new student named Brandon Lee enrolled in Bearsden Academy, a posh high school in the rich end of Glasgow. Claiming to be a Canadian, who moved in with his grandmother after the death of his opera…
An 8-year-old Mohawk girl tries to understand her older sister’s sudden disappearance in Rustic Oracle. Ivy (Lake Delisle) is an 8-year-old girl in a small Mohawk community, who has a close relationship with her teenage sister Heather (McKenzie Deer Robinson). One day, Heather doesn’t pick up Ivy after school and their mother Susan (Carmen Moore)…
A Singapore filmmaker revisits a film she made in her youth in Shirkers. When she was 18 years old, Sandi Tan set out to shoot Singapore’s first road movie with her friends Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique. The film was directed by Sandi’s enigmatic American mentor Georges Cardona, who would disappear along with the footage after…
When it comes to exorcism films, I doubt that The Rite adds anything new to the genre. However, I was drawn to the film because of the fact that it was directed by Mikael Håfström, who previously directed 1408 (one my my favourite haunted house films of recent years), and stars Anthony Hopkins (who has…
