Tag: absurd
Toronto 2025 Review: THE LAST VIKING, Magnificently Absurd Excavation of Buried Baggage
There is a tiny scene in Anders Thomas Jensen’s latest irreverent and absurd character study, The Last Viking, that is utterly pure in regards to why I love his films and his storytelling sensibilities. A man tells a story...
Fantasia 2025 Short Film, Short Review: LE TOUR DE CANADA
Fuelled by strong beer, broken glass, and raw fish, John Hollands' Le Tour De Canada is a frenetic race from St. John’s to Vancouver somewhere in an alternate 1970s - if the chroma keyed backdrops of Toronto are to be trusted, or...
THE PILOT Trailer: Act of Civil Terrorism in Late Capitalism
One of the most original current Czech filmmakers readies a psychological action thriller with drones, a messiah complex, radicalization and anarchism.
PITY Trailer: The Director of Absurdist L Returns With a Man Existentially Addicted to Sadness
The director of absurd deadpan dramedy L bows with equally intriguing sophomore effort Pity
DVD Review: HELLFJORD Defines Uncanny
Hellfjord is an absurd and blackly comic Norwegian television show. It has inklings of Hot Fuzz and the strange isolation and more weirdos than Twin Peaks but ultimately, it is very much its own disturbing beast.This is the story of...
