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by Jennifer Drewett Growing up in a town on the outskirts of a major city, sometimes one could start to feel restless and morose. “Nothing ever happens in this town,” was a typical thought that ran through my head living in a town on the north western outskirts of Bristol. A part of me yearned for an escape to somewhere more exciting than a town … Continue reading Edgar Wright Week: Hot Fuzz (2007) – Review
There is a wonderful visual joke early in Tunisian writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania’s sophomore feature, The Man Who Sold His Skin. A truck filled with check-patterned laundry bags pulls up and out climbs man-on-the-run Sam Ali (Yahya Mahayni) wearing a shirt with the same pattern. For a brief moment I was transported back to the ZAZ (Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker) comedies of the 1980s, Airplane, Top Secret and … Continue reading The Man Who Sold His Skin – Review
Few actors can play a self-satisfied bastard as well as Aidan Gillen. As the unscrupulous Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish in the HBO series Game of Thrones, he had television viewers cringe at his every insincere utterance. In Rose Plays Julie, his third collaboration with the writer-director team Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, he is cast as an unpleasant, full-of-himself archaeologist, Peter. I’d like to imagine that … Continue reading Rose Plays Julie – Review
by Anton Bitel The Night House begins with a montage: a boat rocking against a jetty, a beautiful timber lakehouse above, and multiple shots mapping out the the house’s interiors. What unifies all these images is their emptiness. For there is no human presence in or around this house, apart from in the framed pictures standing on surfaces or hanging on walls – photographs depicting … Continue reading The Night House – Review
by Sarah Cook “Wanna hear a story about how me and this bitch fell out?” The infamous Twitter thread from Aziah “Zola” King made waves on the internet years ago. The little, long tale of suspense captured the world like a Shakespeare play back in the day. The sordid tale was ripe for a cinematic outing. Director Janicza Bravo is in the driving seat to bring … Continue reading Zola – Review
It is easy to spend too much time on social media. You are in the middle of something, decide to glance at your feed through your phone and then get sucked in, liking, commenting or just unburdening. You need to have a job that prevents distraction or else keep the darned thing switched off – to heck with FOMO. Sweat, Swedish writer-director Magnus von Horn’s … Continue reading Sweat – Review
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