A ★★★★ review of Night Call (2024)

Fantasy Filmfest 2025 - White Nights [English] A fast-paced and dirty brutal thriller based on the young locksmith Mady, who accidentally falls into the clutches of a criminal gang in Brussels and undergoes an accelerated coming-of-age development. The pacing is well done and I never have the feeling that I'm getting bored. I like the camerawork in the urban night scenes pretty well for a feature film debut. The emotional core is the inner struggle to save oneself and still remain “moral”. The fact that protests by the Black Lives Matter movement are integrated into this shows how much the

A ★★★ review of Placebo: This Search For Meaning (2024)

Doctober [English] Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal reflect on the history of their band through interviews, archive footage and recordings of a studio session. The film is at its strongest in the second third. The honest stories about psychological pressure, their relationship to alcohol and drugs, and their view of society are also worth seeing for non-fans. The band actually has something to say here. The early days in the 90s are also interesting, when Brian Molko's androgynous appearance as a “boy who wears make-up and a dress” was met with rejection in a rock scene saturated with testosterone, but

A ★★★ review of Heavier Trip (2024)

[English] Impaled Rektum are back with their Symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer grinding christ abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal. This time they are heading to the festival in Wacken to save their parents' farm. The road trip takes the Finns via Lithuania, the buildings in the Vilnius district remind me of Užupis. Up to this point, the dramaturgical structure is well done and the band Blood Motor provides a good counterpart alongside the manager “Fisto”. With a singer who makes me think of Peter Steele of Type O Negative. Not just by the look, but also because his voice is so

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