Chile

A Fantastic Woman

When her older boyfriend dies, transgender waitress Marina, finds herself under violent scrutiny from the police, hospital and the dead man’s family. (at 12:28) Read More
The 33

An inspirational event that captured the world’s attention, the 2010 Copiapo mining accident in Chile – in which 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days – seemed tailor-made for… Read More
Knock Knock

Eli Roth continues his streak of Chilean exploitation pics with this domestic slasher starring Keanu Reeves as a hapless family man caught home alone. Listen to my review Read More
The Green Inferno

Eli Roth ventures deep into the South American jungle for this predictably gruesome but surprisingly reverent homage to the grisly Italian cannibal flicks of yore. Listen to my review Read More
The Dance of Reality

A second chance to see Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first new film in 20 years on the big screen must not be missed. Such a wonderfully surreal and eccentric piece of work… Read More
The Green Inferno

This throwback cannibal flick is the natural summation of all Eli Roth’s travelogue horrors. As gruesome & darkly comic as we could hope for. Read More
The Dance of Reality

Chilean surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky returns to filmmaking for the first time in more than 20 years, and the results are every bit as bizarre and beautiful as we could have… Read More
Aftershock

Chilean director Nicolas Lopez teams up with Eli Roth for a sadistic horror-disaster movie hybrid that follows a group of tourists through the rubble and chaos that follows a spectacular… Read More
REVIEW: Aftershock

Chilean filmmaker Nicolas Lopez teams up with actor-writer-producer Eli Roth for a horror-disaster movie hybrid that sees a dispirate group of tourists and revellers battle to survive after a massive… Read More
No

I first became aware of Chilean director Pablo Larrain and his regular leading man Alfredo Castro from their startling 2008 collaboration, Tony Manero. I was less enamoured, but no less… Read More