Landmine Goes Click (2015)
First published by Sight & Sound A landmine is all latent potential. It lies hidden, sometimes for years, and then when triggered brings indiscriminate death and devastation to all caught … Continue reading
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
First published by Little White Lies No-one saw it coming. Defying all predictability, Peter Strickland’s debut Katalin Varga (2009) was an English film telling a Romanian (and Romanian-language) rape/revenge story set to eclectic soundscapes … Continue reading
The Woman (2011)
Review first published by Little White Lies Stick around after the closing credits of Lucky McKee’s The Woman, and you will be treated to a beautifully animated sequence in which … Continue reading
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine (2007)
Crispin Hellion Glover’s It Is Fine! Everything is Fine is, to put it mildly, confronting. It concerns Paul Baker (Steven C. Stewart), a wheelchair-bound man with severe cerebral palsy living … Continue reading
‘Balls Deep’: Riddick’s flirtation with incivility
First published by Cinetalk Note: spoiler-heavy. “I got sloppy, lost my edge. Maybe I went and did the worst crime of all. I got civilised. So now, we reverse the … Continue reading
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