Rating: 1.0★
There is a particular corner of low-budget genre filmmaking where Thailand and the United States occasionally meet, producing co-productions that are a little difficult to categorise and often equally difficult to track down. Dead Earth, released in 2020 under the banner of Kaos Entertainment, sits firmly in that
Rating: 1.0★
Two of Us (also released under the alternate title Paradise Z, which is the version most viewers outside a handful of markets are likely to encounter) is a 2020 post-apocalyptic thriller clocking in at a brisk eighty minutes. On paper, it sits within a well-worn genre tradition: two
Rating: 1.0★
The Maldives is not a country that gets much screen time in the history of world cinema. A small island nation in the Indian Ocean, its domestic film industry has remained largely invisible to international audiences, producing a handful of features and TV movies over the decades that rarely find
Rating: 1.0★
There is a particular corner of the early 2000s direct-to-video market that time has not been especially kind to, and Max Havoc: Ring of Fire (2006) occupies it with a kind of stubborn permanence. The film is a sequel to Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004), itself
Rating: 1.0★
There are directors who work fast and directors who work cheap, and then there is Albert Pyun, who managed both simultaneously across a career that produced somewhere in the region of fifty feature films. By the time Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon arrived in 2004, Pyun had already cycled
Rating: 1.0★
Cigarette (known in Tigrinya as Shigara) arrived in 2005 as a short-form family comedy produced across the United States and Eritrea, one of the few feature-adjacent works to emerge from a country whose domestic film industry has remained largely invisible to international audiences. Eritrea's cinema culture
Rating: 1.0★
Candomblé is a religion of West African origin, carried to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade and most associated today with Brazil, particularly the north-eastern state of Bahia. Its rituals involve music, movement, possession and a rich system of spiritual figures known as orixás, and it has survived
Rating: 1.0★
Mermaids have had a curious relationship with horror cinema. The creature sits at a crossroads between ancient folklore and monster-movie tradition, and filmmakers have periodically tried to drag it away from the fairy-tale end of the spectrum toward something more threatening. It is a reasonable instinct. Greek mythology,
Genre Documentary
★ — Blue (1993)
Genre Drama
★ — Only God Forgives (2013)
Genre Action
★ — Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Genre Drama
★ — The Exiles (1961)
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