Day: 4 September 2016

4 minute read

#John Bleasdale #Venice

Venice 2016: The Untamed review

★★★★☆ Imagine if H.P. Lovecraft had written The Joy of Sex, or better still a porn parody of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. Neither of these analogies are particularly accurate but we’re in the right territory – the wild region to use […]

3 minute read

#John Bleasdale #Venice

Venice 2016: King of the Belgians review

★★★☆☆ Scottish filmmaker Duncan Lloyd (Pieter van der Houwen) has been tasked with the seemingly impossible job of making a documentary on the Belgian monach King Nicolas III (Peter van der Begin), entitled Our King, intended to improve the king’s […]