Tuesday, 27 August 2019

Crawl (France/Serbia/UK 2019: Dir Alexandre Aja)

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Competitive swimmer Haley (Kaya Scodelario), hearing the news about a Category 5 hurricane threatening her home town via her sister Beth (Mo...
Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Supermarket Sweep #9 - Reviews of Nails (Ireland 2018), The Nursery (USA 2018), Unfriended: Dark Web (USA/Russia 2018), Mara (UK/US 2018), The Midnight Man (USA/Canada 2016) and The Haunting of Redding Hospital (USA 2019)

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Nails (Ireland 2017: Dir Dennis Bartok) Athletics coach and all round fitness nut Dana Milgrom (Shauna The Descent Macdonald) is knocked ...
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Thursday, 25 July 2019

Dark Eyes Retrovision #18: Don't Look Now (UK 1973: Dir Nicolas Roeg)

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Nic Roeg's 1973 film, just a few years shy of its 50th anniversary, is these days popularly seen as a) the most straightforward of the...
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Saturday, 20 July 2019

The Moon on screen - an appreciation

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This is a slightly different version of an introduction to Duncan Jones' Moon (2009) prepared for Screen 25 on 10 July 2019, and publi...
Thursday, 18 July 2019

Charlie Says (USA 2018: Dir Mary Harron)

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In all the excitement of celebrating the 50th anniversary of man's first walk on the moon, it's easy to forget that another, darker ...
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Thursday, 11 July 2019

The Dead Don't Die (USA 2019: Dir Jim Jarmusch)

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In the quiet town of Centerville, USA - 'A real nice place' reads the sign on entering - things move very sleepily. At the local p...
Wednesday, 3 July 2019

Styx (2018 Germany/Austria; Dir Wolfgang Fischer)

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Here's a stripped down, powerful if occasionally polemical drama with some blistering performances and a rising sense of justifiable a...