Automata - SIFF 2018 Movie Review

The Movie: Automata

The Director: Van Alan

The Cast: Basil Harris, Jen Taylor, Doug Jones, Dylan Smith

The Story: In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons.

Susu - SIFF 2018 Movie Review

The Movie: Susu

The Director: Yixi Sun

The Cast: Zitong Wu, Frederick Szkoda, Steve Edwin, Lin Zhu, Junjie Mao, Roslyn Hill

The Story: Two Chinese girls take a film transcription job at a heritage English countryside mansion. Discovering entangled family secrets about the Kunqu Opera star Susu, they find it almost impossible to escape, physically and emotionally.

TwoOhSix Interviews - Karoline Sofie Lee at SIFF 2018

During the first weekend of the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival, I had the pleasure of interviewing Karoline Sofie Lee, the lead actress from The Return (TwoOhSix Review), a movie about two Korean born adoptees returning from their homes in Denmark in a quest to find their birth parents. We chatted about how she was hired for the role, making such a unique movie, and her own personal experience with the subject matter.

A Rough Draft (Chernovik) - SIFF 2018 Movie Review

The Movie: A Rough Draft (Chernovik)

The Director: Sergey Mokritskiy

The Cast: Nikita Volkov, Severija Janusauskaite, Vilen Babichev, Olga Borovskaya, Oleg Feoktistov

The Story: A video game designer is stripped of his identity and recruited by a mysterious force to be the gatekeeper of a multi-dimensional portal.

The Field Guide to Evil - SIFF 2018 Movie Review

The Movie: The Field Guide to Evil

The Directors: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, Peter Strickland, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Katrin Gebbe, Can Evrenol, Calvin Reeder, Ashim Ahluwalia, Yannis Veslemes

The Cast: Sarah Navratil, Birgit Minichmayr, Jilon VanOver, Lili Epply, Claude Duhamel

The Story: A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind's darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.