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(This review originally appeared in its entirety on scenethatreviews.com ) Welcome back to another review from 29th PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival! This time, from the “Official Selection Competition”, we have a political scandal that threatens to upend an election. It doesn’t matter what the story is though. All that matters is time and patience in… No Comment (2025). Prime Minister Alma Solvik (Laila Goody) is locked-in and focused on the upcoming elections. The

( This review originally appeared in its entirety on scenethatreviews.com ) Who's ready for some reviews from the 29th PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival! First up, from the “First Feature Competition”, comes… Interior (2025). As we first meet Kasimir (Daniil Kremkin), he’s climbing out of a couch with a camcorder, while wearing nothing but underwear and socks. As he emerges from the department within the couch, he makes his way upstairs where he takes the camcorder a

(This review originally appeared in its entirety on scenethatreviews.com ) Welcome back to another review from 29th PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival! This time we are looking at a film from the “Baltic Film Competition” that follows a young child trying to process the complexities of a troubled home in… Fränk (2025). After yet another domestic incident at home involving his father, Paul (Derek Leheste) is forced from his home in the city to a small town to stay with

Mike ( Frank Dillane) is a street urchin in London, struggling to just get by. When we first meet him, he's chasing down a friend that's stolen his wallet. A scuffle ensues between the two men, one that is largely ignored by nearly everyone just casually walking by. Eventually, a decent man, Simon (Okezie Morro) steps in and breaks things up, even offering to take Mike for a bite to eat. As the two men begin to walk to a nearby bagel shop, Mike attacks Simon and steals his wa

When your favorite movie is from a particular sub-genre, it can mean one of two things. You either grade that sub-genre really kindly because you know you love it, or you grade it harshly because any competition has an uphill battle to measure up. With me, my favorite movie is somehow NOT from the horror genre, which shocks even me. No, my favorite film of all time is 2007's Hot Fuzz . That means the sub-genre we are judging today is the action-comedy. There is no shortage of

Some films tell a family story. Sentimental Value  feels like it wandered into your own, quietly rearranged a few memories, and then left you to sit with the mess. Joachim Trier’s latest is a father–daughter drama on the surface, but under that it’s a film about time, about the way we turn life into narrative, and about how cinema becomes a substitute language when we don’t know how to speak honestly to the people closest to us. It’s also easily sitting in my top ten of the

I know Netflix kind of hangs its hat on shows these days, but I have always been a movie guy, and I'm glad to see they still release so many new original films. I like television programs, sure, but they're an awful big commitment. Several seasons of several episodes, all lasting between thirty and sixty minutes each. Sometimes much more if you enjoy something like Stranger Things! That's a time commitment of, like, twenty-ish hours or so on a low average. The wife and I rece

A critical deep dive into Wicked for Good—its emotional resonance, standout performances, visual upgrades, and awards potential across major Oscar categories.

I need to watch more of the classic Universal Horror features from the 1930's through 1950's. I've seen a handful of them, sure, but there are several more out there. For instance, I have skipped The Mummy and The Phantom Of The Opera because I had heard they didn't quite measure up to the rest. But maybe I'll dig them anyway when I try them out. My favorites at the point to what I've seen are The Creature From The Black Lagoon , The Invisible Man , and The Bride Of Franken