In Who Hugs the Sea, Egyptian filmmaker Mahmoud Mahmoud delivers a deeply meditative short that drifts between dream and reality, emotion and abstraction. Known for blending spiritual reflection with cinematic experimentation, Mahmoud—an independent director and screenwriter, member of both the Egyptian Syndicate of Cinematic Professions and the Australian Academy of Cinema & Television—once again uses film as a poetic vessel for human experience. This is not a movie to be “understood” so much as felt. Mahmoud’s storytelling draws inspiration from masters like Tarkovsky, Kim Ki-duk, and Fellini, using silence, symbolism, and shifting time as his tools.
Read MoreChoke (2020)
Choke, directed and written by Gregory Hatanaka, is a puzzling experiment in indie filmmaking that struggles to find its footing. The film attempts to blur the lines between reality and fantasy, following a nihilistic detective and a serial killer whose lives intersect through a mysterious young woman. At just 73 minutes, it’s brief, yet crams in an overwhelming number of montages, monologues, and seemingly symbolic scenes—many of which fail to resonate or clarify the story.
Read MoreThe Woman in the Yard (2025) #BluRay
Blumhouse continues to be one of the most unpredictable studios in the horror game. For every Get Out or The Invisible Man, there's a dud that slips through quality control—and sometimes multiple. With The Woman in the Yard, their latest haunted release from director Jaume Collet-Serra, we get a film that doesn’t so much defy expectations as it quietly shuffles past them in a funereal black veil.
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