Salmokji: Whispering Water UK première at FrightFest, 28th and 30th August 2026 Salmokji Reservoir is a real place in Yesan County on the west coast of Korea – but in Lee Sang-min’s Salmokji: Whispering Water, it is also a haunted, liminal zone where dark water meets shoreline and where ghosts lure the living to their…
Solvent had its world première on 26th September at Slash Film Festival 2024 Solvent opens with a text quote from Norman Maclean’s autobiographical novella A River Runs Through It (1976) about eternal waters in the darkness, running “over rocks from the basement of time” and haunting the author. Indeed this is a film about water…
Ashgrove had its world première at the Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Teaming up again with his co-writer Jonas Chernick from James vs. His Future Self (2019), director Jeremy LaLonde brings a dramatic, even an apocalyptic, scenario that, in at least two senses, hits close to home. For Ashgrove is both, topically, a pandemic movie, and…
“Ask yourself before you pee, ‘Is this a dream? Is this a dream?’” This advice, offered by Monica (Yeri Han) to her seven-year-old son David (Alan Kim) as a strategy to help him stop wetting the bed, captures something of the spirit of Minari. For, set in the rural Arkansas of the 1980s to which…
First published by Sight & Sound, May, 2016 Review: Welsh-language feature The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad) opens with Stanley (Mark Lewis Jones) literally down a hole. He is deep in the well that he is building by hand, shovelling mud into an old bucket that he then painstakingly hoists up into the rainy, wintry farmstead above….