Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013)

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013)
Rating: ★★
Dec 21, 2014Animation/Boy With a Cuckoo-Clock Heart on a Quest
A French animated film where a boy with a cuckoo-clock for a heart goes on a quest for love through a surreal quasi-Steampunk Victorian world, which includes cameos from Georges Melies and Jack the Ripper

I Kill Giants (2017)

I Kill Giants (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 1, 2018Girl Believes in Giants
The title leads you to expect a variation on Jack the Giant Slayer but instead we get a very good story about a troubled girl who believes in giants. Very similar to A Monster Calls, this is carried by a fantastic performance from 15 year old Madison Wolfe

What Happened to Monday (2017)

What Happened to Monday (2017)
Rating: ★★
Sep 3, 2017Overpopulated Dystopian Future
From Tommy Wirkola, director of Dead Snow and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, a film where Noomi Rapace plays seven identical sisters hiding their existence in an overpopulated dystopian future, A film where neither the scenario nor the central characters end up convincing in any way

Mandy (2018)

Mandy (2018)
Rating: ★★
Feb 24, 2019Man's Revenge Trail Against a Cult
Nicolas Cage goes all Death Wish and slaughters a cult that murdered his wife. A regular revenge film is transformed by director Panos Cosmatos into something bizarrely primal with a thunderously over-emphatic score and blood red lighting scheme

The Soul Eater (2024)

The Soul Eater (2024)
Rating: ★★½
Oct 13, 2025Police Procedural/Folk Boogeyman Killings
A French police procedural where detectives are plunged into a series of bizarre murders involving a child sacrifice cult and a folk boogeyman. From the directorial duo who started the whole French Extremism movement with Inside

Survive (2024)

Survive (2024)
Rating: ★★
Nov 30, 2025Catastrophic Reversal of the Earth’s Poles
A French catastrophe film where the Earth’s poles abruptly reverse, transforming what was ocean into a desert. A survival film that is based on a premise that is fundamentally scientifically absurd