Midsommar: So-so Scandi shocker

★★★☆☆ Midsommar is writer/director Ari Aster’s follow up to his debut smash hit, Hereditary. Hereditary focused on family life and the horrors that begin at home with guilt and resentment boiling over, descending into a grisly nightmare. Here with Midsommar, Aster serves up a similar affair but instead of a family unit, Midsommar is break up movie wrapped up in pagan horror. The movie clearly shows that Aster is more than a one-hit wonder but there is a little more...

Donbass DVD Review: fear and loathing in Ukraine

★★★★☆ Rarely has a nation been depicted with as much horror as the civil war torn Ukraine of director Sergei Loznista’s Donbass. The film is built around thirteen loosely connected vignettes that explore the mid-2010s conflict between Ukraine and the Russian backed Donetsk People’s Republic. The result is a chaotic and darkly comic look at governmental corruption, media manipulation, and the military-run state. The scenes focus on the conflict zone and how different sectors of society intersect with it. Displaced citizens...

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