A Friend In Need brought to mind that (probably apocryphal) Mark Twain quote: “I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once – all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately.” Here it’s affairs, drugs, crimes against fashion (I’m looking at you, Patrick), and being rude to a pole dancer… A Friend In Need (Short Film) Read More
Intensive Care 2 stars
Read my interviews with star of Intensive Care and top stuntwoman Tara Macken, and director Jared Bentley. Tara Macken, the star of indie action comedy Intensive Care, makes an effective and engaging heroine, as her character Alex takes on three would-be safe robbers in the home of the elderly woman she cares for. I say three…. Intensive Care Read More
Zoe Cunningham On Starring In Smartphone Short “You Have Been Chosen”
“It’s using what you’ve got, it’s making an asset of what you’ve got, and using it to style your film” Actress Zoe Cunningham stars as Fiona in Simon Horrocks’ You Have Been Chosen, a short film shot on a smartphone about a smartphone app that takes over Fiona’s decision-making – one of those apps that sounds like a… Zoe Cunningham On Starring In Smartphone Short “You Have Been Chosen” Read More
You Have Been Chosen (Short Film) Short Film 4 stars
Imagine an app that makes all your decisions for you, and you don’t even have to ask it anything. It just… knows. The best sci fi is tantalisingly close to a sort of reality, and You Have Been Chosen certainly fits the bill. It’s both frightening and highly desirable. It’s a very meta proposition, a… You Have Been Chosen (Short Film) Read More
Filmmaker Simon Horrocks On Smartphone Filming, Raising Money & Netflix
“Everyone is used to seeing people filming with their phones… It’s now just part of life so people hardly react. They might just see you out of the corner of their eye if you’re filming and not even bother to turn round” Simon Horrocks is a screenwriter, producer and director from London. After making his feature… Filmmaker Simon Horrocks On Smartphone Filming, Raising Money & Netflix Read More
Indweller (Short Film) Short Film 2.5 stars
Everyone needs friends, even if just to complain about to other friends. Teenage Emily doesn’t really have any, with a self-sabotaging approach to nascent friendships that come her way. In Indweller, a short film from writer-director Alwyne Kennedy, Emily may yet find a friend, though this friend is of the type that expects a lot… Indweller (Short Film) Read More
Salt (Short Film) Short Film 4 stars
“Just stay inside the circle” says a mother to her dangerously sick daughter, as she has to leave the girl in their bedroom, the bed surrounded by a circle of salt, to go downstairs and find her medicines. Made on a tiny budget and released just in time too scare your socks off at Halloween,… Salt (Short Film) Read More
The Hatred 1.5 stars
It’s 1968, and German farmer Samuel (a suitably sinister Andrew Divoff) is living with his wife and daughter on a fruit farm in the US. He’s certainly creepy, and his clashes with his teenage daughter Alice (Darby Walker) are worse than your average father-daughter arguments even given the period it’s set. One day a package… The Hatred Read More
Sorry To Bother You (London Film Festival) 4 stars
With so many of us well-boiled frogs now, the only way to demonstrate how crazily evil our world has become is to take the metaphors and make them concrete. That’s what Boots Riley has done with his blunt satire Sorry To Bother You. In this alternative reality which isn’t that alternative, America has continued the… Sorry To Bother You (London Film Festival) Read More
Jessica Hynes On Freedom In Filmmaking & Her “Kurosawa Scene”
Jessica Hynes, writer and star of Channel 4 comedy Spaced and star of W1A and The Royle Family (among many, many other shows and movies), has recently directed her first feature film, the micro budget seaside-set family drama The Fight. The movie follows frazzled mum Tina who takes up boxing when she’s forced to find ways to acknowledge… Jessica Hynes On Freedom In Filmmaking & Her “Kurosawa Scene” Read More
The Fight (London Film Festival) 3.5 stars
*** I chatted to Jessica Hynes at the London Film Festival – check it out here *** There are plenty of altercations in Jessica Hynes’ directorial debut, both internal and physical; as mum Tina fights her past and her resultant self-worth to stand up and take control, by climbing through the ropes into the boxing ring. Boxing is… The Fight (London Film Festival) Read More
Romantic drama “No Shade” gets UK cinema release
Clare Anyiam-Osigwe now becomes only the sixth Black British female director in history to have a feature film released in UK cinemas. The movie – a witty, emotional yet hard-hitting look at colourism in Black relationships – has already had successful premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, in Washington and in London, where it opened… Romantic drama “No Shade” gets UK cinema release Read More
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