The Voices – Sundance London Review Cameron Ward April 29, 2014 Reviews 2 Comments The Voices is a unique blend of (like as not) mutually-exclusive soundtracks, aesthetics, and genre tropes that curiously coalesce into a surprisingly digestible black romcom. Directed by...
Finding Fela – Sundance London Review Cameron Ward April 28, 2014 Reviews Academy Award winner Alex Gibney's latest non-fiction piece closely documents the life and music of Nigerian political activist, and Afrobeat creator, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Due to Fela's unfortunate death in...
Hits – Sundance London Review Cameron Ward April 28, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment David Cross' Hits deftly challenges the prevalence of celebrity culture within modern society through carefully mapped characters and remarkably affectionate satire. Despite formally adopting the...
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter – Sundance London Review Cameron Ward April 27, 2014 Reviews The Zellner brothers' melancholic character drama confidently explores the compulsive yearn for escapism through banality, disenchantment and rightful misanthropy. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter's...
They Came Together – Sundance London Review Cameron Ward April 26, 2014 Reviews David Wain's They Came Together brings with it clear, absurd, and intensely welcome influences from his previous work on Children's Hospital, which correspondingly drives a surprisingly...
The Trip to Italy – Sundance London Review Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment La bella Italia, La Dolce Vita – it’s all on display in this glorious Grand Tour, full of good friends and good food and, most of all, full of laughter. Brydon, and Coogan in particular, are less...
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...
Memphis – Sundance London Review Cameron Ward April 24, 2014 Reviews Tim Sutton's Delphian portrayal of a blues musician's decaying spirituality takes on the seemingly mismatched guise of both documentary filmmaking, and hyper-literate, auratic cinema. The film follows the...
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...
Best Films Never Made #12: Shane Carruth’s A Topiary Tom Bond March 7, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 18 Comments In 2004, Shane Carruth stunned the film industry with his visionary debut, Primer. Taking a meticulous and realist approach to the ever-popular sci-fi theme of time travel, his singular vision earned him the...