by Martin | Jan 13, 2018 | movies, reviews
The first film by Brazilian directorial duo Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra was 2011’s Hard Labour in which a woman’s attempt to get her small business (a grocery store) off the ground is undermined by the corpse of a werewolf lurking behind one of the walls...
by Martin | Jan 1, 2018 | movies, reviews, Uncategorized
BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 Violence. It can leave a nasty taste in the mouth, and perhaps it ought to. Brawl In Cell Block 99 certainly left a nasty taste in my mouth, but I’m almost convinced that this was intentional. Not intentional as regards just my mouth of...
by Martin | Dec 3, 2017 | movies, reviews
RIFT Apparently the Icelandic title of Rift (Rökkur) more closely corresponds to ‘Twilight’, but that title, as the director Erlingur Thoroddsen drily points out, was already taken. Though not terribly exciting as a title, Rift is apt enough for this story...
by Martin | Nov 18, 2017 | movies, reviews
In the toilets next to NFT2 a man was calling out for someone called Antonio – he had been asked to do so by a woman outside. Antonio didn’t pipe up, although one of the cubicles was in use I noticed. Conceivably Antonio was inside – asleep, dying, or...
by Martin | Nov 12, 2017 | movies, reviews
The release of Darren Aronofky’s latest film was preceded by a director interview by Trevor Johnston in Sight & Sound urging viewers not to read it until they’d seen the film, since (even more than is usually the case) the more you knew about this film...
by Martin | Nov 5, 2017 | movies, reviews
DHOGS I’m a genre lightweight really, a dilettante. Of all the films I saw at Frightfest this year, only one – The Glass Coffin – could really be called a horror film, and that was probably the least of them. Why, I wasn’t even wearing a black...
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