Germany
Film Review – Trunk: Locked In
Deep within the vast confines of the streaming landscape is a German-language thriller that offers a bit more flair than we would suspect. Trunk: Locked In (2023) is a tense and visually flashy crime story. That’s saying a lot, given that it takes place almost exclusively within…
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Film Review – All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) begins with a powerful opening sequence. We open on a field of dead German soldiers, victims of WWI trench warfare. We see the bodies transported to a mass grave, but the journey doesn’t stop there. The camera follows their…
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Film Noir Files – Victoria
Pulling An All Nighter The strangest things happen at night. For the title character of Victoria (2015), what starts out innocently enough turns deadly serious when she is placed in an increasingly dangerous situation. That’s the basic essence of noir, when you think about it:…
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Film Review – Toni Erdmann
What to make of Winfried, the elderly scamp whose idea of fun is playfully tricking a Fed Ex man into thinking he’s carrying a bomb to his doorstep? A man whose very idea of fun, in fact, is slipping a pair of goofy fake teeth…
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