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A QUIET PLACE
★★★★
Dir:John Krasinski, (2018)
John Krasinski has directed before; Brief Interviews With Hideous Men played like a small scale gender reversed doc version of High Fidelity in which a recent break-up provokes a young woman to get to the bottom of things. The clue is in the title. Krasinski’s second, the very good and very sweet The Hollars takes a modern cinematic trope: A young man returning…
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EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!: Linklater returns to school with this free, breezy and fun slice of life...
★★★★
Dir: Richard Linklater, (2015)
The master of getting across what it’s like to be young and aimless on the big screen goes back to college in this spiritual follow-up to his stellar modern classsic Dazed and Confused. Linklater and Everybody Wants Some!! drops us at the door of a frat house with a rookie baseball player (Blake Jenner); A jock with a heart and soul. We’re quickly…
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GREEN ROOM
GREEN ROOM: A pulse pounding rock and roll horror film...
★★★★
Dir: Jeremy Saulnier, (2015)
With Blue Ruin Jeremy Saulnier made a quiet yet somehow screaming thriller. Macon Blair and his vengeful drifter slow cooked the film to near perfection and Saulnier showed the indie movie world that noir alive and well in backwater America. By letting scenes of angry contemplation and harrowing violence sit with the audience the way it sat with its…
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THE NICE GUYS
THE NICE GUYS: Hugely enjoyable 70s set detective comedy. Not a lot of brain but a hell of a lot of brawl...
★★★★
Dir: Shane Black, (2016)
This quick-fire 70s set buddy cop film from one of the lynch pins of the genre is a swift slapstick detective story tinged with a teeny bit of sadness; A doubly nostalgic partner in crime flick which hinges on the chemistry of its chalk and cheese leads. Ryan Gosling‘s drunky single father Holland March and Russell Crowe‘s brash and portly Jackson Healy are…
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BEFORE I WAKE
BEFORE I WAKE: Flanagan's latest is not without creepiness but it fall slightly flat considering his earlier horror work.
★★★
Dir: Mike Flanagan
(2016)
Indie Horror fave Mike Flanagan delivers his first slightly average effort with this fantastical horror film about grief and loss. Before I Wake drops the potboiler tension of Oculus and Hushto head into the territory of the dream world; A common trope in classic horror but here it feels like more of a hindrance than a help for the talented film maker when a…
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MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: A Sci-Fi road movie love letter to a childhood hero...
★★★★
Dir: Jeff Nichols, (2015)
The wonderful Jeff Nichols expounds on his work with Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud to create a beautifully blended science fiction film which takes much from his beloved 70’s auteurs; Many have already cited the lens flare nostalgia of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and not at all unfairly. Midnight Specialis a brisk road movie…
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THE INVITATION
THE INVITATION: Come on up to the house... A slow cooked thriller at a very long simmer.
★★★
Dir: Karyn Kusama, (2015)
Karyn Kusama (director of Aeon Flux, Jennifer’s Body and Girlfight) gets back to basics with The Invitation and this intriguing script from Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi; A screenplay which looks back at some of the more infamous goings on in the hills of Hollywood when an ominous invitation to a dinner party from an ex-wife takes Will and his girlfriend, Kira to the…
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WHERE TO INVADE NEXT
WHERE TO INVADE NEXT: Moore's most optimistic and thoughtful film in a long time...
★★★
Dir: Michael Moore, (2015)
The ever pushy, but increasingly likeable, libertarian shit stirrer turns in his most optimistic and thoughtful film in a long time; A laser sighted travelogue which takes its road-trip as an opportunity to take down and pilfer the best ideas from nations around the world with a view to shame America. Right now it seems like an idea that most people can get on…
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GOODNIGHT MOMMY
GOODNIGHT MOMMY: This cold Austrian horror film may distress but it thrills in equal measure.
★★★★
Dir: Veronika Franz & , (2015)
This cold, calculated and rather nasty but incredibly effective Austrian horror film focuses on the paranoia of twins Elias and Lukas when their mother arrives home, completely bandaged, neck-up, from facial reconstructive surgery. Susanne Wuest, the fine actress behind the swarths of cloth is subjected to many games by the somewhat neglected pair (played…
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THE GREEN INFERNO
★★
Dir: Eli Roth, (2015)
Horror whiz-kid Eli Roth might have dropped the ball more than a few times after a pretty dazzling debut. The Green Inferno expands (somewhat) on his anti tourism angle this time attacking the anti corporate, Tinder swiping, hunger striking, slacker environmentalists with very little chutzpah. Inspired by the notorious Cannibal Holocaust the splatter laden director…
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THE GIFT
THE GIFT: A little creepy surprise, handled admirably by Joel Edgerton...
★★★
Dir: Joel Edgerton
(2015)
The Australian actor/writer/director goes for the triple threat in this smarter-and-tighter-than-you-might-think psycho thriller which harks back to many schlocky 1990s star vehicles. Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hallare new in town; They move straight into their roomy, rather open modernist house in the Hollywood hills and immediately run into old school friend,…
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THE WITCH
THE WITCH: Robert Eggers drops a quiet chiller which will creep up to burn you weeks later...
★★★★★
Dir: Robert Eggers
(2015)
… or The VVitch, if you like, is 33-year-old director, Robert Eggers‘ staggering debut. This is a horror film with hardly a jump scare in sight. A horror film which manages to loudly scratch against the grain and live quietly behind your eyelids as you lay down to sleep. A horror film where tone is the single twisted knob on the technical interface of what a…
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HIGH-RISE
HIGH-RISE: J.G Ballard's unfilmable novel finally gets a home on the big screen...
★★★
Dir: Ben Wheatley
(2015)
J.G Ballard‘s “unfilmable” futuristic societal rap on the knuckles finally gets its comeuppance in Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump‘s brilliantly designed High-Rise. Wheatley’s 70s influenced pathos in film making really comes into its own here; We are shown right from the get go that things aren’t going to end well for one Dr. Laing (Tom Hiddleson) as he sits down in…
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THE SURVIVALIST
THE SURVIVALIST: A dark but gripping look at a terrifying future...
★★★★
Dir: Stephen Fingleton
(2015)
The Survivalist in Stephen Fingleton‘s rather green post apocalyptic debut kills to survive. After the films bleak, graphical introduction (a blue line representing diminishing oil supplies and a red line representing our earth’s population) we are thrust into a lush livid landscape spattered with blood somewhere in Ireland. Martin McCaanis our man with no…
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JUNUN
JUNUN: Paul Thomas Anderson picks up a digital camera in this sweet and brisk look at Shye Ben Tzur's wonderful music...
★★★
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson
(2015)
The American master Paul Thomas Anderson documents the making of Junun; An album which Jonny Greenwood and Nigel Godrich helped play and record in an old fort/castle in Rajasthan with Israeli composer-singer Shye Ben Tzur. Anderson picks up his first digital film and first straight documentary with an austere but enjoyable look at a very quiet creative…
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HUSH: Mike Flanagan delivers a lean and intense survival horror... ★★★★ Dir: Mike Flanagan (2016) Stellar low budget horror favourite, Mike Flanagan, turns to a tired sub-genre and makes a cracking tension filled home invasion movie with…
QUEEN OF EARTH
QUEEN OF EARTH - A brilliantly acted week by the lake with Moss and Waterston.
★★★★
Dir: Alex Ross Perry
(2015)
Last year’s Listen Up Philip was a film which certainly divided; A talky, complicated study in the life of an abrasive author and his destructive narcism which was as funny as it was bitter. With Queen of Earth writer/director Alex Ross Perry refocuses his influences through Ingmar Bergman’s sensibility, Roman Polanski‘s claustrophobia and Brian De Palma’s knac…
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