OffSeason first published by Movies On Weekends Aside from an attention-grabbing prologue and the occasional flashback, OffSeason is set entirely on the coastal island of Lone Palm just as the last summer tourists leave. The key word here is ‘off’ – for although this is a pleasure resort whose blue-skied beaches are for half the…
First published by Little White Lies If the title of V/H/S evokes a video format prevalent in the 1980s, then its extraneous ‘slashes’ point in two opposite directions, suggesting both the horror subgenre most closely associated with the Reagan era, and the conventional punctuation of a URL. The film itself, an anthology of short pieces…
Thou Wast Mild And Lovely first published by Grolsch FilmWorks “There’s just something about the way you carry yourself, about the way you walk. You carry a lot of tension in your shoulders. Like you got a secret you don’t want anyone to know. Or maybe you’re gay.” The speaker is Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet), the sly,…
First published by EyeforFilm Alongside Andrew Bujalski, Mark and Jay Duplass, Lynn Shelton, Aaron Katz and Ry Russo-Young, Joe Swanberg has been one of the key directors in the post-millennial independent film movement known loosely as ‘mumblecore’, characterised by low budgets, naturalistic dialogue and a probing honesty about relationships. He is also a fine actor…