James Marsh
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I’ve enjoyed and shared Nacho Vigalondo’s debut feature many times but this was the first time I had seen it on the big screen. Fantastic Fest had a special screening… Read More
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An excellent tale of family feuds and bloody revenge. Great direction and a knockout performance from Macon Blair. Read More
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Beautifully directed study of loneliness, grief & how best to preserve dead girls, buoyed by a pair of brilliant performances. Read More
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The latest work of absurdist humour from Japanese comedian Matsumoto is extreme, even by his own bafflingly delightful standards. On the face of it, R100 is set-up as an outrageous… Read More
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One of my favourite films of the year and winner of the Next Wave award at Fantastic Fest. Pitch black satire on high school, our media-saturated society & how quickly… Read More
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This one beat me down with its beautiful imagery and trippy dreamlike ambience. Another casualty of long-distance travel combined with late nights and long hours spent in darkened rooms. I… Read More
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Another one-gag movie from Fukuda Yuichi that gets by on the strength of its child actors long after the joke gets wearisome. Read More
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I loved Jim Mickle’s remake of Jorge Michel Grau’s equally impressive Mexican cannibal drama. Script changes all justifed & well handled, performances strong & Catskills setting beautifully eerie. Read More
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Gorgeously rendered neo-giallo thriller from the makers of Amer. A dream-like, near incomprehensible assault on the senses that seduces with its intricate composition and rich audio-visual landscape, but remains narratively… Read More
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Vidyut Jamwal stands to take the martial arts world by storm after a dynamic breakout performance here as the titular one man army in Dilip Ghosh’s ridiculously entertaining action movie… Read More
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Visually arresting Dutch crime drama succeeds in bringing humanity and empathy to a repulsive monster. Read More
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Darkly humorous tale of revenge given grand operatic treatment by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, the Israeli duo behind Rabies. Read More
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Insane, terrible, brilliant and powerful exploration of victimization and the power of faith in the face of evil. Never has a film had a more ironic title. Read More
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This throwback cannibal flick is the natural summation of all Eli Roth’s travelogue horrors. As gruesome & darkly comic as we could hope for. Read More
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One of only a hadnful of films ever to have been made in Laos, Mattie Do’s ghost story is not only the Communist nation’s first horror film but the film… Read More
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Japanese director Sono Sion is back to his delirious best in this frenetic free-wheeling ode to filmmaking and yakuza cinema. Two feuding gangs look to settle their lingering scores in… Read More
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10 years after he is colluded into participating in the gang rape of a classmate, a young man is still haunted by his crime. Approaching a Christian support group in… Read More
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For his directorial debut, Keanu Reeves chooses the somewhat bizarre choice of a martial arts tournament flick, similar to Enter The Dragon or Bloodsport, shot almost entirely on location in… Read More
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