*** Read my Arctic review (4/5) *** Mikkelsen plays Overgård, a man left stranded in the arctic after his small plane crash lands. Mikkelsen has been lauded for his portrayal, and it’s one I can’t wait to see. Sadly I missed it at the London Film Festival last autumn as I had an injured foot,… Cold Comfort For Mads Mikkelsen In New Arctic Trailer Read More
Take Rabbit (Short Film) Short Film 4 stars
*** Read my interview with Take Rabbit‘s director, the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated Peter Peake *** “You gets what you gives” says the Man as he gradually decides to start interacting with the world once more, ending his self-imposed conversational exile. It’s a change brought about in the main by a meeting with a talking Liverpudlian… Take Rabbit (Short Film) Read More
The Thing (1982) 4 stars
John Carpenter’s The Thing has everything – physical isolation in an antarctic scientific base, failed communication channels, a coming storm (literal and metaphorical), psychological horror as the threat grows and established friendships crumble, and really, really disgusting monsters that I couldn’t take my eyes off. There is a delightful yuck factor to The Thing’s Things. (That is… The Thing (1982) Read More