Short of the Week – Specimen Cameron Ward April 11, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/158897042 Australian filmmaker Luc Mollinger is currently studying at the London Film School. His first entry to the festival circuit made the official selection at BFI Flare LGBT London...
Akron – BFI Flare 2016 Review Cameron Ward March 28, 2016 Reviews Brian O’Donnell’s Akron tells a tale of intergenerational guilt in the face of newfound love. Though both well-written and well-performed, sporadic levels of quality in all aspects runs rampant, bringing...
The Green Inferno – Review Cameron Ward February 14, 2016 Reviews 1 Comment Making his directorial debut with Cabin Fever in 2002, with a further array of torture porn quickly on the way through Hostels one and two, actor/producer/director Eli Roth freely continues his gore-laden...
Just Jim – Review Cameron Ward September 24, 2015 Reviews With Craig Robert’s first turn as a director out of the way, it’s easy to see why “wunderkind” comes up so much. Just Jim marks a new and crucial development in Roberts' thematic repertoire, showing...
The Visit – Review Cameron Ward September 12, 2015 Reviews While The Visit doesn't completely see a return to form for Shyamalan, it's certainly a welcome step in the right direction. The Visit cleverly hybridises generic and formal expectations, relying on the...
Pixels – Review Cameron Ward August 14, 2015 Reviews Pixels is probably fine if you have nothing better to do. Narrative inconsistencies and total changes within the film’s own logic seem to come out of nowhere every few minutes – though I guess none of...
Fantastic Four – Review Cameron Ward August 7, 2015 Reviews Fantastic Four holds restraint, care and pride in the hands of its new-found origin story, but that seems to be all it cares about. As the story develops, real effort and exposition runs its course,...
Inside Out – Review Cameron Ward July 23, 2015 Reviews Little needs to be said about Inside Out; it’s more of the same from Pixar, and the same is very good. Pixar’s noted ability for creative reasoning and progressive maturity finds itself this time telling...
Results – Review Cameron Ward May 29, 2015 Reviews Director Andrew Bujalski gets away from the pointless, meandering angst of his usual 20-something subjects, and moves right on with Results to those 40-somethings that kind of have it figured out, but not...
Wild Tales – Review Cameron Ward March 31, 2015 Reviews “The undeniable pleasure of losing control.” Damián Szifron’s brief description of the underlying ethos behind Wild Tales’ irrefutable catharsis perfectly demonstrates the mellifluous nature of his...
Desiree Akhavan Talks Appropriate Behaviour, Girls and Directing Yourself Cameron Ward March 8, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Desiree Akhavan's feature debut, Appropriate Behaviour, follows Shirin (Akhavan), a bisexual Persian American woman in Brooklyn struggling to rebuild her life after breaking up with her lesbian...
Short of the Week – Le Gouffre Cameron Ward February 23, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/118471437 Having graduated just 3 years prior to their formation, small Canadian animation group Lightning Boy Studio has been working independently for 2 full years to create their...
Big Hero 6 – Review Cameron Ward January 30, 2015 Reviews Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, Big Hero 6 sees a full continuation of Disney’s recent charm offensive, which shows little chance of stopping. Loosely based on a Marvel comic of the same name, Big...
Short of the Week – He Took His Skin Off For Me Cameron Ward January 19, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 1 Comment https://vimeo.com/116498390 If you love something, flay it free. Based on the short story by fellow graduate Maria Hummer, Ben Aston’s visually stunning graduation film, He Took His Skin Off For Me,...
Taken 3 – Review Cameron Ward January 8, 2015 Reviews Olivier Megaton’s second and final contribution to the Taken franchise offers reinvention through self-destruction, but does little with it once risen from the ashes. Taking little from either side of its...