Basenji screens at Cine-Excess 2021 The Basenji is a breed of dog from Central Africa whose name derives from the word for ‘savage’, whose ‘bark’ is more like a high-pitched yodel, and whose attitude towards strangers is reserved. Although a regular barking dog does briefly feature, there is no actual Basenji to be found in…
End of Watch first published in S&S Dec 2012 Review: David Ayer specialises in Angelenos who straddle the line between law and criminality. Training Day (2001), which Ayer wrote, and Street Kings (2008), which he directed, as well as many of the films that he has co-written – The Fast and the Furious (2001), Dark Blue…
Franck Khalfoun’s s(l)ickly stylised remake of William Lustig’s Maniac (1980) hits cinemas today, and it is everything a remake should be (contrast Evil Dead, also out this week). For it stays true to the spirit of the original while turning it inside out, bringing it up to date, and self-consciously, even melancholically ringing the changes….