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For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★★☆☆ David Wnendt’s Wetlands (2013) stars Carla Juri as Helen, an adventurous teen experimenting with sex, drugs and haemorrhoids.The daughter of divorced parents – and with countless issues feeding her angst – Helen spends her days indulging in casual encounters with strangers, vegetables and public toilet seats. One day the Continue Reading
★★★★★ “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” This is the cautionary, biblical advise offered up by Lillian Gish’s kindly foster mother at the outset of The Night of the Hunter (1955), Charles Laughton’s seminal Depression-era thriller. Not only did Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Opening to a drug-addled Leonardo DiCaprio tossing a dwarf, Martin Scorsese’s raunchy, ribald and gloriously satirical attack on American hedonism, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), is a feast of such vulgar delights that it would make Bacchus blush. The tone, whilst distinctly of the director’s oeuvre, possesses a Continue Reading
★★★★☆ The crushing social angst found within a generation of despondent, shiftless hipsters has long been a mainstay of micro-budget filmmaking. Whilst Jan Ole Gerster’s German effort Oh Boy! (2012) shares many of these traits, this Berlin-set slacker comedy also boasts a heart of gold and an unassuming charm. We follow Continue Reading