'The Harder They Fall': This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Spaghetti Western
In Jeymes Samuel's history-infused, neo-spaghetti western, Black women are center stage with a fresh hip hop mixtape keeping rhythm in the backdrop.

When the filmmaker obtains a mobilization video from a mysterious witches' coven, she embarks on a quest driven by her own longing for feminist solidarity. The trail of witches leads her from tourist shops to churches, from TikTok to the seaside. The film "The Witches' Syndicate" thus becomes a mystical-magical journey and, at the same time, a personal, sometimes comically absurd, search for meaning. In doing so, she creates an image of the witch as a place of longing and an invitation to contemplate political injustices and to combat them with unconventional and playful means.
In Jeymes Samuel's history-infused, neo-spaghetti western, Black women are center stage with a fresh hip hop mixtape keeping rhythm in the backdrop.
Ripley is a great character because she serves two distinct, but rewarding, purposes in the original film and the sequel.
'Midnight at the Paradise' premieres tomorrow at Toronto's Paradise Theatre! I had the pleasure to sit down with Vanessa Matsui to discuss the making of this film.
A short hybrid film featuring everyone's favorite Disney characters.
Not every silence is empty. Some are filled with things too heavy for words.
It doesn’t offer an absolute answer for the dialectical ethical questions that emerged in search of justice but portrays the characters as living people beyond the identities of victims.