Monday, 25 February 2019

Foxtrot (Israel/Switzerland/Germany/France 2017: Dir Samuel Maoz)

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Samuel Maoz's belated follow up to his well received debut feature, 2009's Lebanon , is a three act movie about war and loss that ...
Friday, 22 February 2019

The Prodigy (USA/Canada/Hong Kong 2019: Dir Nicholas McCarthy)

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Nicholas McCarthy's previous horror features, The Pact (2011) and At the Devil's Door (2014) were well received but rather abstr...
Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Dark Eyes Retrovision #10 - Parents (1989 Canada/USA: Dir Bob Balaban)

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When Parents was released on home video back in the day, (July 1989 to be precise and cut by three minutes from the cinema release) I tho...
Monday, 18 February 2019

Dark Eyes Retrovision #9 - Ring (Japan 1998: Dir Hideo Nakata)

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The twentieth anniversary of the release of arguably one of the most important horror movies of the late twentieth century (it made No. 12...
Saturday, 16 February 2019

Dark Eyes Retrovision #8 - Breakfast at Tiffany's (USA 1961: Dir Blake Edwards)

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Notes from my introduction to the film at Screen 25 on 15 February 2019. It’s 5am on a Sunday morning, October 2nd 1960. A cab pull...
Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Outlaws (Australia 2017: Dir Stephen McCallum)

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Despite the rather unpleasant characters and violent setups in Stephen McCallum's debut feature film, Outlaws  (original title One Per...
Monday, 11 February 2019

Dark Eyes Retrovision #7 - The Unholy (USA 1988: Dir Camilo Vila)

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According to Camilo Vila, in the commentary on Vestron's Blu Ray reissue of his third feature The Unholy , the director didn't set...