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Dear Cinephiles,
after a quiet month of April we have been quite busy in May at JoRafCinema. We started the month at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy where we saw something like 50 movies! We have started to review them starting with the best ones: the transgender Japanese story Close-knit, Canola for the dramatic story and all the emotions it gives, Survival Family about what happens after a power blackout in Japan, At the Terrasse and its delicious dialogs and the Korean mystery drama Vanishing time: a boy who Returned.
Among recent theatrical releases we liked Ben Weathley's British Free Fire, the American Going in Style and its elderly bank-robbers, the trial movie The Whole Truth with Keanu Reeves and the prequel to the Ridley Scott classic Alien: Covenant.
We relatively appreciated older movies like the romantic comedy Shallow Hal, the surfer movie Point Break not as good than we remembered, and the post-9/11 The Kingdom taking place in Saudi Arabia.
We completed some review on TV-series as well, like the excellent 80's nostalgic Stranger Things, the slowing down fourth season of the British success Sherlock and the first of the serial killer thriller The Following with Kevin Bacon.
In the midst of all that we took the time revamp a little the blog, widening it and adding a third column to the left where you can now find Featured Articles as well as an archive of this monthly Newsletter.
Finally, we ended the month at the FANTASPOA Fantastic Festival In Porto Alegre, Brazil, still ongoing. We have started to review the movies seen there but the only good ones seen in May are the American actress story Always Shine and the Hungarian timeloop mystery Loop (Hurok).
Stay tuned in June for many more Festival movies reviews and a summary article on FANTASPOA.
Jo&Raf
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