Unworldly Views

THE WOUND Up for the Sutherland First Feature Award was this South African tale whose hero Xolani (Nakhane Touré) returns every year to the countryside to become a ‘caregiver’ to initiates in a tribal ritual wherein boys become men by dint of such activities ...Read More

RIFT Apparently the Icelandic title of Rift (Rökkur) more closely corresponds to ‘Twilight’, but that title, as the director Erlingur Thoroddsen drily points out, was already taken. Though not terribly exciting as a title, Rift is apt enough for this story of two gay ...Read More

DHOGS I’m a genre lightweight really, a dilettante. Of all the films I saw at Frightfest this year, only one – The Glass Coffin – could really be called a horror film, and that was probably the least of them. Why, I wasn’t even ...Read More