Listen Up Philip – LFF Review Tom Bond October 9, 2014 Reviews Philip (Schwartzman) is the man you'll love to hate. Ike (Pryce) is the man he could become. They are both tortured, selfish literary geniuses and Moss, Ritter and de La Baume are the women who suffer for...
Shrew’s Nest – LFF Review Tom Bond October 9, 2014 Reviews Shrew’s Nest is a shrieking bloody mess of a film that just about clings onto enough sanity to tell a compelling and sinister story. Montse (Gómez) is too afraid to leave her house and when an injured...
Dancing Arabs – LFF Review Tom Bond October 8, 2014 Reviews Dancing Arabs’s greatest strength is the way it recognises and respects the painfully irreconcilable divide between opposing cultures – in this case Israel and Palestine. There is kindness and humanity...
The Duke of Burgundy – LFF Review Cameron Ward September 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Sex and love as toxic to one another - such is the bizarre dichotomy put forth by The Duke of Burgundy. Peter Strickland’s latest in a string of all-enveloping exploitation subgenres meticulously burrows...
Camp X-Ray – LFF Review Danielle Davenport September 25, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Camp X-Ray establishes its identity with a vividly kinetic start, adeptly unveiling the Guantanamo Bay locale where soldiers “defend freedom”. The film intrigues with its subtlety and style, conveying...
Locke – Review Chris Davies April 15, 2014 Reviews Following his feature-length directorial debut, Hummingbird, long-time writer Steven Knight directs again with a tense, witty, high-concept thriller set entirely inside a car. Hardy is a magnetic presence,...
Drinking Buddies – Review Chris Davies November 7, 2013 Reviews From Joe Swanberg, a master of the mumblecore movement, Drinking Buddies is a charming – if indulgent – anti-romcom revolving around four friends and a microbrewery. The unconventional setting never...
Mystery Road – LFF Review Chris Davies October 21, 2013 Reviews Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen writes, directs, photographs, scores, and edits his latest film, Mystery Road, revealing him to be a jack of all trades and master of… some. Clearly inspired by Westerns,...
Gravity – LFF Review David Brake October 10, 2013 Reviews 2 Comments "I think a future flight should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher . . . we might get a much better idea of what we saw." - Michael Collins, the pilot of Apollo 11, describing his views from the...