by Martin | May 11, 2014 | movies, reviews
I’ve wanted to see the 1973 made-for-TV movie Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark ever since I read about it in Halliwell’s Film Guide in the early 80’s. I never have, but no doubt it would be just as disappointing as Troy Nixey’s 2010 remake,...
by Martin | May 11, 2014 | movies, reviews
Director Joanna Hogg’s first two films – Unrelated (2007) and Archipelago (2010) – are about upper-middle class English families on holiday in Tuscany and the Scilly Isles respectively. They were more interested in absorbing you in a landscape and situation than...
by Martin | May 4, 2014 | movies, reviews
The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival has renamed itself Flare. I’m not sure what I think about this – immediate associations that spring to mind (trousers, nostrils, distress signals) are not exactly encouraging. Also, if someone told me: ‘I’m...
by Martin | Apr 26, 2014 | movies, reviews
I took a half day off work to see this, and thus missed Ann Widdecombe on the Jeremy Vine show talking about ‘What It Means To Be Human’. However, this offered a roughly comparable experience. An attractive alien disguised as movie star Scarlett Johanssen...
by Martin | Apr 26, 2014 | movies, reviews
Mafia hitman Salvo (Saleh Bakri) kills a guy but instead of despatching his sister Rita (Sara Serraiocco) – a witness to the crime – he chooses to hide her in an abandoned factory and keep her fed and watered. Why? Love? Pity? Or is he caught on the horns...
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