REVIEW: Demonic [2021]

It means it’s coming for ya. Carly (Carly Pope) hasn’t seen her mother (Nathalie Boltt‘s Angela) in two decades—if you don’t count the nightmares. Writer/director Neill Blomkamp brings us into his latest film Demonic through one such dream pitting daughter against mother inside an abandoned sanitarium with the latter calling out for the former’s help. Rather than conclude with a heartfelt reunion that’s yet to happen in the real world, Carly finds herself startled awake from the flames created by her mom tossing a lighter into the pool of gasoline…

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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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