Switchblade Romance (High Tension, Haute Tension) first published by Movie Gazette, 15 Oct 2004 If there is a kind of music that you dislike and dismiss, it all sounds the same, whereas if you like it and give it your due attention, you can notice a whole spectrum of delightfully nuanced differences between each and…
Crawl first published by Little White Lies If you are the kind of person who, upon hearing that Crawl is about a daughter trapped with her gravely injured father and giant aggressive alligators in a house’s basement crawlspace during a Category Five hurricane, can barely stifle a yawn, then it is probably fair to say…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks “Are you horny?”, asks Merrin (Juno Temple), the longterm sweetheart of Ig (Daniel Radcliffe), her first words spoken in this film as they lie together, kissing on a blanket under a tree in the woods. “I’m getting warmer,” he replies. Verdant and sunlit, this is an Edenic setting –…
Maniac first published in Sight & Sound, April 2013 Review: “You are totally not what I imagined,” says Lucie (Megan Duffy), the young date whom Frank has picked up on a website called ‘Cupid’s Rejects’. She had been expecting somebody “fat, with long dark hair and greasy skin full of acne” – in other words, somebody just…