SIFF 2023: 'Burning Hearts' Capsule Review

What if Romeo and Juliet but with warring small town Italian farm mob families? That’s the basic conceit of Pippo Mezzapesa’s Burning Hearts, where a forbidden romance shatters a fragile truce and stirs up a generational blood feud.

'Zeros And Ones' (2021) Movie Review

Abel Ferrara’s pandemic-shot terrorism thriller, Zeros and Ones, presents a difficult mystery to unravel. In the end, it remains to be seen whether or not finding a concrete solution is even entirely possible, but the sparse, lean, meditative tale offers an esoteric and, most importantly, compelling journey of obtuse motivations, dubious loyalties, and looming violence.

Blu-Ray Review: Dario Argento's 'Opera'

In a career full of nutty, brutal, style-forward horror films, few titles on Dario Argento’s resume are as strange, violent, or aesthetically singular as his 1987 giallo, Opera, which has a nice new Blu-ray release from Scorpion. In one of the bonus features, the director calls it his favorite of his films, and it’s easy to see why. It’s like a collection of all of his visual and thematic faves and watches a bit like if Douglas Sirk make horror movies instead of domestic melodramas.