This is my favourite of all the short films I’ve watched this week. It’s about a robot lizard and it’s only one minute long. When I heard “Jericho” I thought that sounds like a lovely name and I think the lizard might be called Jericho. It starts off not much sad. The robot lizard crawls… Jerich0 – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Read More
The Penguin Who Couldn’t Swim – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Short Film 4 stars
This film is five and a half minutes long. There’s a penguin who can’t swim because he has a short wing. Nobody speaks but that doesn’t matter. There isn’t much detail in their faces. Sometimes you can only see their eyes but you can still tell how they are feeling. He watches his friends swimming… The Penguin Who Couldn’t Swim – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Read More
Peanut Butter Falcon (London Film Festival 2019) 5 stars
The Peanut Butter Falcon infuses its message of autonomy and risk-taking with a sense of magic – as Zak, a young man with Down Syndrome who escapes his dreary, constricting care home for freedom and adventure, drifts on a raft through the stultifyingly hot river-ways of the American South with new friend Tyler and old friend… Peanut Butter Falcon (London Film Festival 2019) Read More
Director Mark Jenkin on “Bait”, his black and white Cornish classic-in-the-making
“There are shots in the film that I know were taken from rolls of film that I must have been processing when I was wearing a woolly jumper, because I can see the little bits of fibres.” Mark Jenkin on his film-making process. Bait, Jenkin’s beautiful and jolting film, looks at the gentrification of a… Director Mark Jenkin on “Bait”, his black and white Cornish classic-in-the-making Read More
Bait 4.5 stars
Despite its tough subject matter, there’s a magic saturating writer-director Mark Jenkin’s film, shot on a vintage 16mm camera using black and white Kodak film that he then hand-processed. Jenkin’s methods (you can read more about them in my interview with him here) result in a film both grittily realistic (harking back to those 1960s kitchen… Bait Read More
Indie sci fi film Nightlens has a trailer – just don’t open the… oh
Creepy indie science fiction horror Nightlens has a trailer, and yes that is a brain in a box. The film is about relationships, and how you can’t go back to how things were with someone if you haven’t explored what went wrong and why. In the film, the shady Cerebrics agency reconstructs people’s memories to… Indie sci fi film Nightlens has a trailer – just don’t open the… oh Read More
Indie home invasion thriller “Nefarious” gets a trailer and a world premiere
“Sometimes, you have to turn to crime. Sometimes, it turns on you…” Check out the trailer for Nefarious, the new film from the makers of 2018’s successful indie folk horror Dogged. A home invasion horror-thriller, Nefarious is directed by Richard Rowntree and stars Toby Wynn-Davies (Dogged, Escape from Cannibal Farm), Nadia Lamin (Dogged, Hosts) and newcomer Buck Braithwaite…. Indie home invasion thriller “Nefarious” gets a trailer and a world premiere Read More
The Isle: Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart on their spooky, siren drama…
“On the island… when something like a force nine gale hit, or a beach disappeared due to a storm, we couldn’t just stop filming, we didn’t have the luxury of time.” Three sailors, the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the rocks, find their way to shore through the mist. This is an island that shouldn’t… The Isle: Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart on their spooky, siren drama… Read More
First look at Ewen Bremner as Alan McGee in “Creation Stories” movie
If you remember the 90s then, well, we’ve probably met before. Watching Oasis at Maine Road (I was definitely there). Watching Oasis at Knebworth (I think I was there). Watching Oasis at the Riverside in Newcastle when they stormed offstage after a “brawl” (technically I wasn’t there at all but I tell everyone I was)…. First look at Ewen Bremner as Alan McGee in “Creation Stories” movie Read More
“Sometimes, Always, Never” director Carl Hunter on mods, muzjiks and his Merseyside movie
“Scrabble as a motif, order can be created, things can be put right. But you’ve just got to know the rules and be willing to play.” Carl Hunter, director of Sometimes, Always, Never. Film director Carl Hunter used to play in Liverpool band The Farm, part of the soundtrack to my 90s youth – and he was in a… “Sometimes, Always, Never” director Carl Hunter on mods, muzjiks and his Merseyside movie Read More
I Love My Mum 3 stars
Bickering – so easy to do in real life – is a vastly underrated acting skill. I Love my Mum, the new comedy from writer-director Alberto Sciamma, is soundtracked to the constant hum of tiny aggressions and endless reproaches, a stuck record that needs a kick in order to jump forward. Olga (Kierston Wareing) and… I Love My Mum Read More
Shed Of The Dead 2.5 stars
With three horror icons gracing his rom-zom-compost Britfick Shed Of The Dead, director Drew Cullingham is triply blessed. Kane Hodder (who I last saw tearing innocent victims limbs from limb in Victor Crowley), Bill Moseley (who I’m to scared to watch in anything) and Michael Berryman (Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes), face off during a particularly local… Shed Of The Dead Read More
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