by Martin | Mar 1, 2015 | movies, reviews
I may boast of my aversion to the mainstream but do I ever really escape it, or is it like Christopher Marlowe said: ‘Where we are is the mainstream and the mainstream is where we ever are’? (OK, he was talking about Hell but it’s the same idea.) I have been slightly...
by Martin | Mar 1, 2015 | movies, reviews
An Iranian vampire Western? Is this what the world really needs? On the evidence presented here – yes. Not that this is really Iranian, since it is shot in America and is set in a fictional (Iranian) place called ‘Bad City’. Not that it’s really a Western either,...
by Martin | Feb 15, 2015 | movies, reviews
Possibly for budgetary reasons, Kieron Moore plays both romantic lead and villain in this shocker from director Sidney J. Furie. In the former capacity he courts Hazel Court’s Nurse Linda Parker, who works at his father’s surgery in Cornwall, while in the latter he...
by Martin | Feb 8, 2015 | movies, reviews
I hardly ever go to see documentaries because they’re about real life, and I can see that for free. But recently, every time I looked at the ICA website, I noticed that they were giving me yet another opportunity to see Laura Poitras’ film about Edward...
by Martin | Feb 1, 2015 | movies, reviews
L FOR LEISURE The fact that people are nostalgic for the 90’s is beguilingly weird to me – I was there, and barely noticed them – but maybe this is why I enjoyed Whitney Horn and Lev Kalman’s goofy, dreamy, possibly inconsequential L For Leisure so...
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