by Martin | Sep 14, 2024 | movies, reviews
Not content with having a horror film festival, Romford now has a film festival – which also features a lot of horror. I turned up for just the one offering, Chad Ferrin’s Unspeakable: Beyond The Wall of Sleep. Ferrin is a prolific director, and no doubt too...
by Martin | Aug 25, 2024 | movies, reviews
My introduction to Lindsay Anderson was being shown the 1968 film If…. in (judiciously edited) half hour portions at secondary school in the 70’s in a lesson called ‘Design for Living’, a rather random class which was used to dispense whatever...
by Martin | May 19, 2024 | movies, reviews
Soon every town in the country will have its own horror film festival, which I suppose is no bad thing, although I could hardly keep up when it was just Frightfest. I saw one film that escaped me at Frightfest (Austin Jennings’ Eight Eyes) in late January at...
by Martin | Apr 1, 2024 | movies, reviews
A PRINCE Pierre Creton’s film featured in both John Waters’ top ten and Sight and Sound’s top 50, so it should have been made for me – but there’s no accounting for taste. All I can say is that it certainly gives you the feeling that...
by Martin | Mar 3, 2024 | movies, reviews
FINGERNAILS Love is lighter than air, sings Stephen Merritt of The Magnetic Fields. It floats away when you let go. Love therefore needs to be grounded: in Greek director Christos Nikou’s follow-up to his debut film Apples it is grounded in having your...
by Martin | Feb 24, 2024 | movies, reviews
I haven’t seen this literary satire, Cord Jefferson’s debut film, based on a 2001 book by Percival Everett, but I was fully intending to until I saw the trailer. It put me off. Judging a film by its trailer is a bit like judging a book by its cover, but...
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