Possibly coming to a film festival near you this year is Baby Brother, a remarkable feature debut from Michael J Long. It tells the story of two siblings, Adam and his kid brother Liam, across two separate days, five years apart, and if you do get the chance to see […]
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Kids Vs Aliens (2022)The perfect gateway horror fodder for 13-year-olds (Review)
A group of young boys let loose with a video camera, a forbidden house party whilst the parents are away, the arrival of malicious extraterrestrial kidnappers… if the premise of cult genre filmmaker Jason Eisener’s latest, Kids vs. Aliens, sounds familiar to you, it’s probably because he was also the […]
Britannia Hospital (1982) Testing the Nation’s Health (Review)
The Mick Travis trilogy of films which began with if…. in 1968 and continued with O Lucky Man! in 1973 concluded in 1982 with Britannia Hospital. It was a film that also effectively ended the career of the director, Lindsay Anderson, as near-universal critical condemnation saw its release amputated by […]
Scorsese Shorts (1963-74) supremely confident first steps of a master (Review)
The Vanishing (1988): Performance-driven 1980’s Psychodrama hits hard (Review)
Not only a stark reminder of why I don’t like going on holiday, but The Vanishing also provides a tightly wound adaptation of a book I haven’t read. My aversion to reading Tim Krabbé’s apparently excellent The Golden Egg and holiday making aside, The Vanishing is arguably the most popular directed piece from one George Sluizer, who you […]
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) The Sexual or the Spiritual? (Review)
Released to Blu-ray by Arrow Academy this last week, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is the renowned Japanese new wave filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima’s 1983 adaptation of Sir Laurens van der Post’s semi-autobiographical works, The Seed and the Sower from 1963 and The Night of the New Moon from 1970, each inspired […]