by Martin | Dec 24, 2018 | movies, reviews
MADELINE’S MADELINE The new film from director Josephine Decker (Thou Wast Mild And Lovely) is a gripping and vivid account of some days in the life of the eponymous schizophrenic teenager (an impressive Helena Howard), who has joined a theatrical troupe which...
by Martin | Dec 1, 2018 | movies, reviews
STRAIT JACKET Winding up the Joan Crawford season at the BFI was this William Castle production from the trashier end of her spectrum, though compared to Trog (1970) it’s a masterpiece. The audience have come over-determined to giggle at a camp classic, and to...
by Martin | Oct 15, 2018 | movies, reviews
KILLING GOD In this Spanish offering from directors Caye Casas and Albert Pintó, various members of a family gather in an old dark house for New Year’s Eve, only to be joined by a dwarf who emerges from the toilet (the room, not the bowl – at least as far as we...
by Martin | Sep 23, 2018 | movies, reviews
THE CLEANING LADY Frightfest is now ‘owned’ by Arrow Video, which makes sense. The only difference I could see was that there were a lot of free DVD’s lying around, which I certainly wasn’t complaining about (I’ll save that for when I...
by Martin | Sep 9, 2018 | movies, reviews
MIRROR MIRROR ‘Long may it continue’, I said earlier in the year about the BFI’s ‘Cult’ strand. Well now it has ended (though replaced by something very similar called Terror Vision) but at least its last showing, curated by feminist film...
by Martin | Aug 5, 2018 | movies, reviews
In theory it ought to be possible to respond to a film without taking into account to the critical reaction to it, but once you are aware of that reaction and have seen it pasted on the sides of buses, there’s not much you can do about that: it’s already...
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