Joseph Campbell would have loved Blitz Bazawule’s 2018 film The Burial Of Kojo. It is a rich and beautiful narrative that burrows inside the essence of the hero’s journey to reveal something deeper about transformation, loss, and memory. The Burial Of Kojo’s narrative draws heavily on magic realism, as well…

The theme song for Intrepidos Punks seems to be based on my life story. “On the highways, and the cities too Robbing anyone, they always break the law On their motorcycles, riding around with their girls. Looking for adventure, they worship Satan. Intrepidos Punks! Sex and drugs violence, they’re always…

Mababangong Bangungot (Perfumed Nightmare) is so dense with imagery it’s hard to know where to begin or how to do it justice. It’s poetic and personal, political and mythological, comic, radical, innovative, and intuitive. It was written, directed, filmed, produced, edited, and starred in by Kidlat Tahimik. I don’t think…

Premutos: Fallen Angel doesn’t have a lot going for it except an awesome narrator and a seemingly endless supply of fake blood, but if you’re in the right mood that can be enough. The narrator sounds like a combination of Paul Robeson, and Tom Waits if they were drowning in…

This one left me a bit speechless. You can take that as positive or negative, I don’t know what to say. It was intense. It was jam-packed with action, blood, loud music, sex, and urgent emotion. I guess that sounds pretty good. I’m not sure about the way women were…

Be Patient And You Will Be Well Rewarded In Eduardo Nunes’ Unicórnio Unicórnio was filmed in a very wide aspect ratio, 2.39:1. With such a long, thin image the viewing experience is considerably different. With a more conventional ratio, there is the sense of being able to take in each…