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Reviews
Jethica (2022) A beautifully cinematic expression of loneliness and the inbetween (Review)
Set amongst the vast and sprawling landscape of New Mexico in winter, Jethica centres itself around Elena who is retreating in her grandmother’s secluded trailer. Whilst getting gas one day she runs into an old school friend Jessica, who hesitantly accepts Elena’s invitation to stay at the trailer, but while […]
You Resemble Me (2021): the real person behind the fake news (Review)
Time was, “From the executive producer of…” was the least impressive thing you could put on a poster, but now it’s become a handy guide to a film’s style and subject matter. Major directors are lending their imprimatur to films by new or less well-known directors, and it’s telling which […]
The Munsters (2022) The Gags are Creakier than Slowly Opening Coffin Lids (Film Review)
Let’s face it, the 1960s were a weird time. A time when shows like The Addams Family and The Munsters could be produced purely for mainstream audiences, with the latter often beating it’s similarly macabre (and arguably now more fondly remembered) rival in the ratings war and only falling foul […]
El Mar La Mar (2017): Experimental cinema in one of Earth’s most hostile landscapes (Review)
The title of Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki’s experimental documentary, El Mar La Mar, released on Blu-Ray by Second Run, refers to a passage in Anabasis by Xenophon of Athens. A chronicle of the victorious campaign of ten thousand Greek mercenaries to secure the Persian throne for their employer Cyrus […]
Skinamarink (2022) the Liminal Horror of 2023’s most divisive movie (Review)
As a child, were you ever afraid of going to the bathroom at night? If you were (or still are), there’s a good chance that you’ll relate to the sense of primal terror that drives Skinamarink. An overnight social-media sensation following its Fantasia Festival premiere (and subsequent online leaking), Skinamarink, […]
The Lukas Moodysson Collection (1998-2013)(Review)
The test of a good box set is not so much the quality of each individual film, but whether it gives you new contexts to appreciate the films you may not otherwise take to. Arrow’s new Blu-Ray set of every fiction feature directed by Lukas Moodysson deserves points for completeness, […]
Project Wolf Hunting (2022) Rivals The Sadness for extreme viscera and gut-punching madness (Review)
From director Kim Hong-sun comes Project Wolf Hunting, an ultra-violent horror action thriller from South Korea. Korean criminals are being expedited from Manila, Philippines to Busan on a large cargo ship due to a past disaster in an airport. On board are the most dangerous criminals known to the state […]
January (2021) A Master Class in imagery, and the conflict between modernity and tradition (Review)
“There’s barely anyone left to die, so I do remember.” Andrey Paounov’s January encompasses the human soul reckoning with itself and the outside world in the midst of a snowstorm and unseen monsters no one will escape from. Andrey Paounov’s January encompasses the human soul reckoning with itself and the […]
Run Man Run (1968): A Picaresque Shaggy Dog Tale of a Tortilla Western (Review)
Receiving its Blu-ray world premiere from Eureka Entertainment’s Masters of Cinema series this week is the third and final Western from director Sergio Sollima, 1968’s Run, Man, Run. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this ‘Zapata’ or ‘Tortilla’ Western (the names commonly given to these Italian-made oaters of […]