The Midnight Swim first published (in a shorter version) by VODzilla.co The Midnight Swim opens with a lilting lullaby sung by a woman in what sounds like a Middle Eastern language, and with a pure white screen which resolves first to mist-bound watery ripples, and then to an empty bed with a white sheet on…
The Invitation first published by VODzilla.co Some way into The Invitation, the host of a dinner party is seen walking into the garden of his Hollywood Hills home, and lighting a red lamp in the darkness. In the film’s nexus of meanings and associations, that lamp is a multivalent symbol whose conflicting significations – it is…
Longer version of piece published by Sight & Sound as part of coverage of the Cult programme at the London Film Festival 2015 A cult following is something that takes time to build, so calling a new film ‘cult’ involves a certain degree of crystal ball gazing and quixoticism – unless of course an actual cult…