Free Fire

Free Fire (2016)

Free Fire first published by RealCrime Magazine Like Ben Wheatley’s previous feature, his latest is set in the 1970s, and features an ensemble of players turning on each other inside a building. There, however, all similarities end. For where High-Rise (2015) was a sprawling Ballardian folly that teased out the shifts and tensions in Britain’s socioeconomic…

Room

Room (2015)

Room first published by Real Crime Magazine The latest film from director Lenny Abrahamson (Frank, What Richard Did, Garage) is most easily defined by what it is not. Room evokes the recently unearthed cases of men (like Josef Fritzl or Ariel Castro) who, having kidnapped and falsely imprisoned young women, went on to father children by…