Halaloween is back with 4 new films this month! You can stream Joko Anwar’s Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion (Indonesia, 2022) and Alper Mestçi’s Siccīn 3: Love (Turkey, 2016) at home and then attend live screenings of Tarik Saleh’s The Cairo Conspiracy (Egypt, 2022) and Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger […]
At Nerds of Color, Bao Phi ponders Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022). “Consider how many risks the filmmakers took, how many plates they had in the air, and recognize their ambition. Think about how difficult it is to incorporate special effects convincingly into a modern film, and […]
Enjoy this Spookoween Season with Halaloween: the Fourth Annual Muslim Horror Film Festival presented by the University of Michigan’s Global Islamic Studies Center and features excellent films including: Roh (Malaysia, 2018); Beddua: The Curse (Turkey, 2019); and, Satan’s Slaves (Indonesia, 2017). These films are free and streaming online. […]
“Satan said, ‘I am better than him. You created me from fire and him from clay.” ~ Quran 7:12 quoted in Roh. “Ephemerality is ours.” ~ demon in Roh. “The next time you think you see a a demon, shoot it.” ~ The Wind. Warning, I tried to […]
In normal times, I’d be writing about ten comics I read that I liked this year and haven’t written about yet. But it is, as is so often said, not normal times and I am not entirely sure what the new normal will be both here at the […]
Love HK Film’s Kevin Ma has started a new website, Asia In Cinema, and it looks pretty sweet. “Based in Hong Kong, Asia In Cinema is an English-language news site that reports on the Asian film industry from a balanced perspective. We believe that all the countries and regions […]
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