Unearth

Unearth (2020)

Unearth had its World Première at Fantasia “If you make a tree good, its fruit will be good. You make a tree bad, its fruit’s gonna be bad.” These words, with their simple paratactic structure, and their use of a homespun figure taken from nature, sound like a moral from a parable – and while…

Escape From New York

Escape From New York (1981)

Escape From New York first published by Little White Lies, as the 70th instalment of my Cinema Psychotronicum column In the mid-1970s, when John Carpenter wrote Escape From New York in response to the Watergate scandal, 1997 was a distant – but not too distant – future in which all manner of contemporary concerns could…