For Elisa (Para Elisa) first published by Grolsch FilmWorks Ana (Ona Casamiquela) is part of a new generation of Spaniards – a Fine Arts student struggling to make ends meets as the recession hits hard, and resentful of the parents who, post-Franco, had it easier. Her sometime boyfriend Alex (Jesús Caba) is similarly cash-strapped, sharing a…
First published by TheHorrorShow “They’re here.” Again. Much like a house built on top of the unrestful dead, Gil Kenan’s Poltergeist is haunted by the ghost of Tobe Hooper’s original. Few complained that the 1982 film itself drew much of its plotting from a 1962 Twilight Zone episode called ‘Little Girl Lost‘ (about a child…
Dream Home first Published by Sight & Sound, December 2010 Review: “In a crazy city, if one is to survive, he’s got to be more crazy.” So reads the text that opens Pang Ho-cheung’s Dream Home, preceded by a brief primer on the gulf between average Hong Kong earnings and property prices, and followed by…