TRAIN TO BUSAN PRESENTS: PENINSULA – DOUBLE TAKE

WELCOME TO DOUBLE TAKE, OUR COLLABORATIVE WRITING SERIES FROM THE ON THE CLOCK TEAM, IN WHICH TWO OR MORE MEMBERS OF OUR WRITING COMMITTEE REVIEW THE SAME FILM, EITHER WITH A SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT OPINION. TODAY’S ARTICLE IS ON THE NEW TRAIN TO BUSAN FLICK ‘PENINSULA’, WHICH IS CURRENTLY PLAYING IN SELECT NORTH AMERICAN CINEMAS. For all […]

BARE – HOT DOCS ONLINE 2020 REVIEW

Leading the way for cinema so phallic it’s surprising to not see the organ onscreen, Bare is certainly an acquired taste. Avoiding both eroticism and a juvenile reaction to the male body in its raw form, Aleksandr Vinogradov’s exuberant filming of male nude dancers is an attempt to free the male form, as well as […]

THE TOP 5 MOST NOTABLE SHORT FILMS FROM ANNECY 2020

After watching a good deal of short films from this year’s online edition of the acclaimed Annecy Animation Festival, I thought I would share some of my favorite shorts to look out for in the future. First, I would like to highlight Lursaguak, with its magic-marker visuals and repeated rape scenes– nah, we won’t kid […]

TALES FROM THE PRISON CELL – HOT DOCS ONLINE 2020 REVIEW

“When you love someone, the good stuff makes you forget the bad” says a father locked up after having fallen deeper and deeper into a life of crime and struggling to hold his family together. Fatherhood grows further distanced when the hand of the law cracks upon it, the imprisoned men struggling to remain in […]

THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION – Review

Setting a tone of unearthly beauty from the very start, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking winner This is Not a Burial, It’s as Resurrection is striking. The film is an exploration of grief and acceptance, both personal and of loved ones. It’s a poem dedicated to the […]