DVD Review: La Prisonnière
★★★★☆ Re-released on DVD and Blu-ray this week, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s final film, the S&M-themed La Prisonnière, is a riveting melodrama which shows up the...
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23 February 2024
Film Review: Out of Darkness
★★★☆☆ Set approximately 45,000 years ago, when our ancestors Homo sapiens were making incursions into the lands of the Neanderthals, British director Andrew Cumming’s horror thriller Out of Darkness (formerly The Origin) depicts a small tribe coming up against a malefic entity in unknown and inhospitable environs.
29 November 2022
Film Review: Lynch/Oz
★★★★☆ With Lynch/Oz, renowned film studies documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe turns his attention to the celebrated, surrealist oeuvre of David Lynch: in particular, the director’s recurring fascination (arguably, obsession) with 1939’s MGM classic The Wizard of Oz.
25 November 2022
Film Review: She Said
★★★☆☆ Maria Schrader’s She Said goes behind the scenes of how The New York Times journalists led the charge in bringing down Harvey Weinstein. One of the most successful film producers of all time, he was also a sexual predator who used his wealth, privilege and power to destroy the lives of countless women.
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Film Review: Isle of Dogs
★★★★☆ Whatever happened to the humble canine being ‘man’s best friend’? This is exactly the question Wes Anderson poses in his sci-fi dystopian adventure Isle...
Film Review: Thelma
★★★★☆ Joachim Trier’s unexpected foray into genre territory recalls the films of M. Night Shyamalan and Brian De Palma’s Carrie, giving the tale of...
Interview: S. Craig Zahler, dir. Brawl in Cell Block 99
American genre director S. Craig Zahler came to the attention of audiences and critics alike with his stunning 2015 horror western hybrid Bone Tomahawk. Zahler...
Film Review: Brawl in Cell Block 99
★★★★☆ The second feature from S. Craig Zahler, Brawl in Cell Block 99 is a grisly saga about a brick shithouse mechanic turned drugs...
Film Review: The Endless
★★★★☆ Since their debut feature, 2012’s Resolution, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have emerged as two of American indie cinema’s most inventive genre filmmakers,...
Film Review: Strangled
★★★☆☆ There’s a killer on the loose in smalltown Hungary. The sicko is abducting young women, strangling them and having it off with their...
#LFF 2017: Let the Corpses Tan review
★★★★☆ Moving away from the febrile world of 1970s Italian horror to that decade’s Euro crime dramas, Belgium-based duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani...
