6 days ago
Color Out of Space at LFF: an elegant monolith of crazy
Preamble Shite: Yes, I know the correct spelling is ‘Colour’, and you Lovecraft scholars out there will know the Americanisation…
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6 days ago
The El Duce Tapes at LFF: remarkably shrewd shock-rock-doc
If I had to describe The El Duce Tapes in a single word, I might say ‘shrewd’ – which would…
6 days ago
The Painted Bird at LFF: a pretty slice of empty neo-exploitation
A prominent UK-based critic gave The Painted Bird a 5* review during the Venice film festival. The main thesis of…
2 weeks ago
Monos at LFF: an unholy, malarial trance
Monos plays like a slow-motion freefall from an exploding jet plane at 43,000 feet. Taking audiences on a swirling, horrifyingly…
2 weeks ago
Ruptures at LFF: an experimental, political noir triumph
Ruptures, an experimental, fragmented noir co-directed by Brad Butler and Noorafshan Mirza, hits the sweet spot. As an experimental work…
2 weeks ago
The Peanut Butter Falcon at LFF: colour-by-numbers Sundance schmaltz
The Peanut Butter Falcon initially sounds like a parody of American independent cinema – a critique of groan-inducingly twee Sundance…