The Edge of Seventeen slipped through the cracks when it came out during the Award season at the end of last year. It's a real shame because it's easily one of the smartest teen comedies to come out in a long time. It's an impressive directorial debut from first time director Kelly Fremon Craig. It's about … Continue reading The Edge of Seventeen – DVD Review
The Creeping Garden is a documentary about the strange, alien-like substance that is plasmodial slime mould. For a long time, slime mould was thought to be a fungus, but researchers have found out that it’s something very different: a eukaryotic organism that is neither plant nor animal. It can move, and apparently it has some … Continue reading The Creeping Garden – Blu-Ray Review
Operation Avalanche is by the young Canadian filmmaker Matt Jonson, whose previous feature The Dirties won big at Slamdance a few years ago. His latest movie is an ambitious mockumentary about faking the moon landing at the end of the 1960s. It’s one of the rare “found-footage” films (which are usually horrible) that is actually … Continue reading Operation Avalanche – DVD Review
Hell Drivers is a film about lorry drivers in the late 1950s, heavily influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Wages of Fear, which came out a few years earlier and was a smash hit across Europe (it was trimmed down for the US market). Tom (Stanley Baker) is a criminal just released from prison and in search … Continue reading Hell Drivers – Blu-Ray Review
Arrival is the latest film by Denis Villeneuve, whose body of work over the last four years has been extraordinary. Villeneuve is currently directing Bladerunner 2049, following on from Prisoners, Enemy and Sicario. Based on “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang, it stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forrest Whittaker and concerns what would … Continue reading Arrival – Blu-Ray Review
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