The Case Against 8 – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston May 6, 2014 Reviews The Case Against 8 is a never-more-than-ordinary documentary about a never-less-than-extraordinary series of events. Needless, theatricality proves to be its main undoing. In one scene, Ted Olson reads back...
Under the Electric Sky – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 25, 2014 Reviews Under the Electric Sky is a ridiculous film which exhibits ridiculous people. Shot during 2013’s Electric Daisy Carnival it offers zero accessibility and little of interest to anyone not already associated...
Frank – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 25, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment “What goes on inside that head?” Michael Fassbender goes one better than Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd in the bizarrely sublime (or is that sublimely bizarre?) Frank. This is a film which, given a chance...
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...
The One I Love – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 23, 2014 Reviews The One I Love is a crumpled-up love letter being tumble-dried inside one of the drums of The Twilight Zone. Charlie McDowell manages to crack open a window and pump a fresh breeze into a genre bloated with...
Drunktown’s Finest – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 22, 2014 Reviews Drunktown’s Finest is Sydney Freeland’s directorial debut on a feature - and it shows. This film, which combines the increasingly interwoven stories of three young Native Americans, is never quite able to...