Archenemy first published by Little White Lies strap: Adam Egypt Mortimer’s ARCHENEMY uses myths of empowerment and alienation to create a messily subversive maybe-superhero film We live in the era of the superhero. Those costumed crusaders have been all over our screens, mythologising the politics of our times, while exploiting adolescent dreams of empowerment. Yet…
Adam Egypt Mortimer on keeping Daniel real was first published by SciFiNow Magazine as a discursive essay with select quotes, but here is a much longer transcript of the original interview (conducted in 2019). APB: Who the hell is Adam Egypt Mortimer? What were you before all this movie stuff happened, and how did you…
Daniel Isn’t Real first published by Little White Lies. A different review of the film can be found here. It is all in the title. Lots of films – which won’t be named here to avoid spoiling – only reveal the imaginariness of a character’s ‘invisible friend’ as a Big Twist™, but we know from…
Daniel Isn’t Real first published by SciFiNow The vengeful revenant at the heart of Adam Egypt Mortimer‘s feature debut Some Kind Of Hate (2016), co-written with Brian DeLeeuw, embodies and enacts the darkest drives of the film’s living characters. In its follow-up, Daniel Isn’t Real, adapted by Mortimer from DeLeeuw’s 2009 novel In This Way…
Some Kind of Hate first published by TwitchFilm After finally standing up for himself against a vicious bully, troubled teen Lincoln (Ronen Rubinstein) is sent to a New Age reform school in the Californian desert, where he is quick to find himself the target of further bullying. In a moment of frustrated anger, he accidentally summons…