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This music documenatary about an obscure black punk band from the 70s, is less about punk rock and more about wrestling with how best to honour the wishes of the… Read More
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Pure cinema. Fantastically staged, inventively shot and robustly performed. Epic, intimate, claustrophobic & thrilling. See it BIG. Read my full review here. Read More
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The spirit of Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me lives on in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ coming-of-age drama, in which two best friends abandon civilisation and opt to spend the summer living on… Read More
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I had no interest in watching what appeared to be yet another post-Twilight supernatural romance actually turned out ot be one of the best examples of the genre. Aidan Ehrenreich… Read More
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After being introduced to Ethan Embry by his Cheap Thrills director Evan Katz, I made a mental note to myself to watch his breakthrough role in 90s teen comedy Can’t… Read More
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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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