When you consider the quintessential film festival flick, Quality Time probably comprises all of your expectations. The term experimental is an understatement, but would also suggest amateurism, which Quality Time certainly isn’t. From its cinematography to its structure and semblance of narrative, Quality Time is probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen. I’m hesitant to call […]
A zombie movie like you’ve never seen before The premise for The Cured is a post-apocalyptic world, in which seventy-five percent of an infected population are ‘cured’. They return to their past selves, save for a little PTSD and social oppression. And herein lies the primary conflict of the movie. The subjugated cured rise up […]
A film about a son’s experience of his father’s depression has won the student prize at the Cornwall Film Festival Short Film Competition. The film, Bulldoze, uses puppets to explore what it feels like to be leaving home and leaving behind a parent who is suffering with the illness. Student filmmaker, Jake Earwaker, is in his third […]
I am Not a Witch is a hilarious and harrowing tale from one of the finest new voices. I am Not a Witch is the debut film from Zambian-born director Rungano Nyoni. It tells the story of a young girl, Shula, accused of witchcraft after a trivial mishap. The phenomenon in Zambia relates not to a […]
Paco Plaza took the horror genre by storm with the Rec. series (remade in English as Quarantine) and he’s back to do it all over again with Veronica. The plot is fairly generic for horror, and is based on a true story, which means nothing to anyone except the marketing team. But Veronica’s success lies not […]
Film Rating: ★★★ Grief can be a difficult thing to capture accurately on film. Most actors aim for Sean Penn in Mystic River but it can very easily turn into a sobbing, melodramatic B plot from an episode of EastEnders. Thankfully The Unseen captures the feeling perfectly thanks to Jasmine Hyde’s measured performance and some […]
Small Town Crime tells the story of an alcoholic ex-cop who finds a young woman’s body and commits himself to finding her killer. It’s not the most original premise, and neither is the plot, character development, or execution. And that’s the first impression I got from this movie: that it didn’t stray an inch from […]
Sensational director Guillermo del Toro is back to his roots with The Shape of Water. And it’s making a serious splash. The Shape of Water takes audiences back to the fairy-tale style of earlier movies. The story explores the relationship between mute cleaner Elsa and the creature at the government facility where she works. The premise […]
From Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the critically acclaimed The Lobster and Dogtooth emerges The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The most unsettling and thrilling movie to grace our screens since David Fincher’s Gone Girl. From The Killing of a Sacred Deer‘s opening shot, Lanthimos reaches out of the screen and pins your eyes open like […]
