Film, page 2

1 week ago

Boyz in the Wood at EIFF: Gleefully nasty, turbo-charged debut

Like Jonas Åkerlund’s brilliant Lords of Chaos, you can tell that Boyz in the Wood was helmed by a music…

1 week ago

Brightburn at EIFF: an embarrassing, nepotistic mess

Brightburn is that rare film that fails on every single level – it fails so hard that it even fails…

2 weeks ago

10 to See at EIFF 2019

The 73rd Edinburgh International Film Festival is upon us, and we can’t wait to spend the next couple of weeks…

4 weeks ago

Sunset: A Lynchian Waking Nightmare of Pre-Apocalyptic Intensity

If you visit Budapest, you’ll probably notice an unnerving monument to history: the walls of the city’s beautiful buildings are…

4 weeks ago

The Death of Dick Long at Sundance London: dark and absurdly funny redneck Fargo riff

There’s definitely something post-postmodernism, let’s call it post-irony, that’s been occupying film for the last decade. The best way I…

4 weeks ago

Late Night at Sundance London: a ham-fisted, ignorant slice of popular politics

When I was in secondary school, I studied Computing. We had a unit on Artificial Intelligence – it was interesting,…