Horror

Meet your maker at “Anymart”, the Japanese little shop of horrors that wowed Berlinale

(Sometani Shota as store clerk Sakai in Japanese horror/social commentary film "Anymart") By Michael Roddy There is something not quite right in the Anymart convenience store, located in a nondescript neighbourhood in Japan and staffed by young uniformed employees who are, if nothing else, excessively agreeable and accommodating. It turns out their every move and…Read more Meet your maker at “Anymart”, the Japanese little shop of horrors that wowed Berlinale

Child of the Forest: “Nightborn” picks up where Polanski left off

By Michael Roddy First time Finnish mother Saga (Seidi Haarla) has a problem, and it's not just that her British husband Jon (Rupert Grint, of “Harry Potter” fame) is alien to the local culture or that her grandmother, whose wreck of a house deep in the Finnish woods they've renovated and moved into, warned before…Read more Child of the Forest: “Nightborn” picks up where Polanski left off

Cinderella story with a meat cleaver, mother-and-baby issues from hell on Berlinale screens

Marie Leuenberger as new mother who is convinced her infant is not her own in "Mother's Baby" In “The Ugly Stepsister”, an uproarious Norwegian twist on the Cinderella fairytale screening at the Berlinale, Elvira (Norwegian actress Lea Myren) wants to win the prince but also loves eating cake. Her money-obsessed mother (Polish actress Agnieszka Zulewska)…Read more Cinderella story with a meat cleaver, mother-and-baby issues from hell on Berlinale screens