Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break – SXSW 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross March 24, 2021 Reviews Last year, Stranger Things’ Joe Keery delivered a career-defining performance as social media-obsessed psychopath Kurt Kunkle in Netflix’s Spree. The young man, whose meagre online presence stood in the...
North by Current – Berlinale 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross March 6, 2021 Reviews “Do you want to hear about the other kid we lost? We had a little girl named Angela, she was quite the character…”, says Angelo’s dad as his son sits in front of him, camera in hand, as he attempts to...
Caught in a Trap: Blood Simple and the Coens’ Inescapable Cycle Rhys Handley October 3, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features It’s always weird going back to the beginning. So many great directors seem to arrive fully-formed, but that’s usually because by the time they break out and hit the spotlight, they already have a solid...
The Limehouse Golem – Review Louise Burrell September 3, 2017 Reviews The Victorian era has provided fertile ground for cinema’s lust for murder, mystery, and debauchery, particularly around the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders. What The Limehouse Golem offers is a precursor...
Horns – Review Stephen O'Nion November 3, 2014 Reviews 2014 is a damned fine year for Daniel Radcliffe, and Horns a damned fine outing (“witty” emphasis on "damned"). Initially playing as a cross between The Invention of Lying and Bill’s New Frock, as...
Pasolini – LFF Review Tom Bond October 10, 2014 Reviews A love letter from one provocauteur to another, written in dried blood and tired philosophy. Dafoe is assured as the controversial director, both in his tentative physicality and his soaring creative...
We Are Monster – EIFF Review Cameron Ward June 25, 2014 Reviews 3 Comments Antony Petrou's racism-fuelled drama concerning the tragic real-life case of Zahid Mabarek shifts focus from the victim, instead opting to centre in on just what drove his fellow inmate, Robert Stewart, to...
Fruitvale Station – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 24, 2014 Reviews 2 Comments Shuddering footage extrapolated from a cellphone shows a group of black men sitting on a station floor. One is thrown down and a bang stings the air. Fruitvale Station begins with an ending. Michael B. Jordan...
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,...