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19/04/2021 - The Canadian film Vicious Fun scooped the Grand Prize and the Audience Award during this year’s one-off online edition of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival Riders of Justice by Anders Thomas Jensen It was Bill Calahan’s cleverly self-referential Canadian movie Vicious Fun which won over the jury and the public at this 39th edition of the BIFFF (Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival), bagging itself both the Golden Raven and the Audience Award....

Son Review: Parenting Is Hard When Your Child Is From Hades Son Review: Parenting Is Hard When Your Child Is From Hades Irish director Ivan Kavanaghs U.S.-set feature is an interesting but uneasy mix of supernatural horror and earnest drama. Dennis Harvey, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Ivan Kavanagh With: Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch, Luke David Blumm, Cranston Johnson, Blaine Maye, J Robert Spencer, Rocco Sisto, Kristine Nielsen, Erin Bradley Dangar, Adam Stephenson, David Kallawa...

(The article continues below - Commercial information) The upcoming film, penned by the director himself, has been described as “a bold and unnerving character-driven horror film, in the vein of Hereditary, The Babadook”. In detail, we will follow Laura ( Andi Matichak), a mother who, after escaping from a cult as a child, must face her past when its sinister members break into her home and attempt to steal her eight-year-old son, David ( Luke David Blumm). Now the two are on the ru...

Copy to Clipboard The Art of Political Murder (HBO) In April 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi was attacked in his garage and beaten to death. The human rights activist had presented a report that outlined the atrocities of the army in the wake of the Guatemalan Civil War. Three army officers – Colonel Byron Disrael Lima Estrada and Captain Byron Lima Oliva (who were father and son), and José Obdulio Villanueva – were convicted of Gerardis murder in 2001 and sentenced to 30-year prison terms.  Bi...