by Martin | May 2, 2022 | movies, reviews
AMULET Can horror be ‘progressive’? Actor and now director Romola Garai talks about ‘changing the narrative’ of horror with her first film but I’m not sure that she’s managed it (what is this ‘narrative’ anyway?) though...
by Martin | Feb 13, 2022 | movies, reviews
Ah, masks! Still de rigeur at the ICA at this point (this was before Plan B kicked in). During the London Film Festival I dared to go in there unmasked, which felt like a transgressive act, but hey, it was a festival and anyway isn’t the ICA supposed to welcome...
by Martin | Jan 30, 2022 | movies, reviews
LA ABUELA In this Spanish film from Rec director Paco Plaza, Susana (Almudena Amor), a fashion model on the verge of success, has to take a career break when her grandmother Pilar (Vera Valdez) has a brain haemorrhage and she has to go and look after her, at least...
by Martin | Jan 30, 2022 | movies, reviews
THE FEAST I remember overhearing a punter at the London Film Festival one year asking the guy next to him what he’d seen and he replied: ‘A lot of films that could have been better’. My experience this year (last year) was a bit like that. Even...
by Martin | Dec 14, 2021 | movies, reviews
NIGHT DRIVE A mysterious fugue enveloped Frightfest last year – it’s like it didn’t really happen. But suddenly here I am again in the Empire Leicester Square, and – after a few ‘missing’ years – Dave is even back, and sitting next to me....
by Martin | Oct 10, 2021 | movies, reviews
CENSOR Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor makes a link between censorship and (emotional, psychological) repression that’s pretty obvious, but the film has a knack of making the obvious work – which has the additional virtue of being thematically appropriate....
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