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...
by Martin | Jan 25, 2015 | movies, reviews
My interest in Polish director Walerian Borowczyck came about by accident. Back in the early 80’s I saw his 1971 film Blanche described in the Daily Mail’s TV listings as one of the most frightening ghost stories ever filmed – at any rate, this is...
by Martin | Jan 18, 2015 | movies, reviews
I settled down for this Kuchar Brothers double-bill at the BFI with three cushions (Christmas presents for Mum) in carrier bags, a burden bulky enough to suggest that I should have splashed out on another ticket. With an amused gay man on my left and Brian Sewell...
by Martin | Jan 18, 2015 | movies, reviews
My jaw dropped when I heard that divisive auteur Bruno Dumont’s next film would be a comedy about cops, and remained in that state throughout the three-hour plus length of the film (actually a four-part TV series, served up in a single showing at the London Film...
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