Stone Turtle has its UK première at Glasgow Film Festival 2023 “Same island, different myths,” comments Samad (Bront Palarae). After all, Turtle Stone Island is said to be uninhabited, but he has found Zahara (Asmara Abigail), her young niece Nika (Samara Kenzo) and a few other women living there – and while he has read…
His House first published by Little White Lies Bol Majur (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù) walks, zombie-like with exhaustion, carrying his little girl Nyagak (Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba) down a dusty road in war-town South Sudan. Then Bol, his wife Rial (Wunmi Mosaku) and Nyagak cram onto the back of a pick-up truck (“I’ll protect you,” Rial promises the girl)….
Styx first published by Little White Lies Nothing quite isolates the human condition like a vessel in the middle of a vast ocean. So it is that films like Kon Ichikawa’s Alone Across the Pacific (1963), Ang Lee’s Life of Pi (2012) and J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost (2013) pit boatmen solo against the elements…
“Here at the ReZort, we firmly believe that every apocalypse deserves an afterparty,” says corporate manager Wilton (Claire Goose), promising her island guests, “Sand, sun, sea and slaughter.” After the trauma of a global zombie outbreak, and the loss of so many loved ones, slaughter seems the best medicine – at least to those who…