Stuck first published by Film4 “Out of sight, out of mind.” So says Rashid (Russell Hornsby), the drug-dealing boyfriend of Brandi Boski (Mena Suvari), as the pair plots to get rid of Thomas Bardo (Stephen Rea) – a homeless man who has become lodged in the windshield of Boski’s car after she accidentally rammed him…
Everest first published by Sight & Sound, November 2015 Review: “Because it’s there.” This, reportedly, was George Mallory’s laconic response, pitched somewhere between jocular dismissal and rugged existentialism, to the question, “Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?”. Mallory disappeared, less than 250m from Everest’s summit, in 1924. In Baltasar Kormákur’s Everest, these three words are…
First published by Film4 Synopsis: David Lynch is executive producer on this Werner Herzog film about a man, his sword, his mother, and the long arm of the Lord. Inspired by a true story. Review: As the sound of a train is heard in the distance, the title ‘David Lynch presents’ appears on screen, followed swiftly…
Writer/director Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry feature debut begins with a stark contrast. The opening shot is a slow tilt down woodland trees, with the buzzing of flies growing audibly louder, suggestive of something dead on the forest floor, never quite reached by the camera. Next we see Alex (Jeff Roop) emerging from an elevator into an underground…