Koko-di Koko-da – Review Rob Salusbury September 6, 2020 Reviews Too exploitative to be intelligent, too repetitive to be innovative, Swedish director Johannes Nyholm’s second feature is an ambitious attempt to tackle the long-lasting effects of deep-set trauma that loses...
Memory and Trauma in Memento, Trance and Remainder Tom Bond June 28, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Memory is a difficult thing for cinema to dissect. It’s the most opaque, internal process we experience as humans, and therefore wholly unsuited to a medium as visual as film. Countless books that rely on...
Remainder – LFF Review Tom Bond October 5, 2015 Reviews Beginning with a brutal shock to the system, Remainder becomes a disquieting, paranoid thriller with a sheen of clammy body horror. Just when you worry it’s writing itself into a corner, the unnamed...
Short Term 12 – Review Christopher Preston November 13, 2013 Reviews 2 Comments An independent movie focusing on the consequences of child abuse does not sound like the year’s most uplifting film but, somehow, Short Term 12 has managed to be just that. Set almost entirely within a...
