REVIEW: Kicking Blood [2022]

Where do we go when we die? Living forever isn’t living. It can’t be. Without the threat of death, all you’re doing is going through the motions. Just because Anna (Alanna Bale) understands this more than her centuries-old hunting friends (Benjamin Sutherland‘s Boris and Ella Jonas Farlinger‘s Nina), however, means little if she refuses to actually change. Not that she hasn’t in superficial ways like holding down a job (working sunrise to sunset at a library) while they live off the spoils of their latest, wealthy victim. But that’s more…

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TIFF20 REVIEW: Falling [2020]

I’m sorry I brought you into this world … so you can die. The best part of Falling, Viggo Mortensen‘s debut as writer/director, is a family dinner bringing the surviving members of the Peterson clan together in California. John (Mortensen) has gone through the emotionally arduous task of collecting his homophobic father (Lance Henriksen‘s Willis) from the family farm up north to stay with him, his husband (Terry Chen‘s Eric), and their daughter (Gabby Velis‘ Monica) in a bid to move him down now that old age and dementia are…

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