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With Susanne Bier bringing his adaptation of John Le Carré’s The Night Watchman to BBC primetime, British screenwriter David Farr has been busy behind the camera himself, crafting his directorial debut The Ones Below. A nightmarish upstairs/downstairs simmering suburban thriller, it is an impressive first outing on the big screen Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but what about neighbours? If David Farr’s impressive debut feature The Ones Below is anything to go by, it might be best to avoid them completely. Having previously penned several episodes of Spooks and jointly scripted Joe Wright’s Hanna with Canadian screenwriter Seth Continue Reading
★★★★☆ In the opening shot of Next to Her, impatient teenagers rattle the bars of a metal gate as they wait for Chelli (Liron Ben-Shlush) – the school security guard – to let them out. But it turns out that Chelli is far more trapped than the students behind the gates, because she Continue Reading
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