Film Review: The New Girlfriend
‘Based on a story by Ruth Rendell’, is not something you expect to read at the beginning of a François Ozon film. I’ve not read the book, but given Rendell’s…
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Film Review: Spring
In terms of a horror film, Spring is a real anomaly. There’s more chemistry between Nadia Hilker and Lou Taylor Pucci, the two leads, than you see in the majority…
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Film Festival Review: Derby Film Festival 2015
Now in its second year, Derby Film Festival continues to grow in terms of programme, quality and attendance, whilst still retaining the same friendly atmosphere as before. The QUAD is…
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Film Review: Tokyo Tribe
Shion Sono is not what you’d call an unadventurous director. Suicide Club, Noriko’s Dinner Table and Strange Circus built him a cult following with horror aficionados. He then stunned the…
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Incoming: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A love story between two tortured souls In the Iranian Ghost town called Bad City, A place that reeks of death and loneliness, where a lonesome vampire is preying on…
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Film Review: The Supreme Price
Nigeria is a huge country. Populated by over 160 million people and boasting a landmass which is significantly bigger than Mainland Europe, the most visited country in Western Africa is…
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Film Review: Clouds of Sils Maria
There’s been quite a few “backstage” films of late. The most famous example is Birdman, but other notable entries include Map To The Stars and Venus in Furs. Olivier Assayas…
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Film Review: A Fuller Life
n many ways, screenwriter and filmmaker Samuel Fuller was a maverick of American cinema. He staunchly avoided the Studio system and mainstream Hollywood, making films which were controversial and uncompromising.…
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Film Review: The Tribe
Cinema is a medium where expression and visceral action can often speak louder than words. In Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s debut film, The Tribe, the Ukrainian director takes this to a new…
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Incoming: A Royal Night Out
May 8th, 1945 – V.E. Day… a nation celebrates the victorious end to a long and costly war. Cloistered away in Buckingham Palace two princesses peer out longingly at the…
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