★★★☆☆ Familial waters run especially deep in Dave McKean’s haunting new drama Luna (2014), which featured in the experimental Vanguard strand of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. In the director’s striking but uneven 2005 debut feature, Mirrormask, it was style that particularly caught the eye as he crafted an Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Of all the monsters that lurk amongst the shadows zombies have somehow prevailed, enduring where other ghouls have fallen, and in the process ambling and groaning their way through a myriad of cultural, political and economic anxieties. Jeff Baena’s Life After Beth (2014) is another, in a long line Continue Reading
★★★★★ There’s bleak and then there’s Le Jour Se Lève (1939). To celebrate the film’s 75th anniversary, this week sees the release of an immaculate 4K restoration along with what the Independent Cinema Office are calling “new previously censored scenes that will be seen by audiences for the very first Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ David Fincher knew exactly what he was getting himself into when he agreed to take on the big-screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn′s bestselling Gone Girl. Like 2011’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also based on a popular page-turner), Gone Girl (2014) attempts to marry the innately pulpy sensibilities Continue Reading
