9 Songs (aka Nine Songs) first published by Movie Gazette, 4 March 2005 Matt (Kieran O’Brien) is a British geologist who analyses sample bores of ice, deciphering thousands of years of glacial history from their compacted layers. As he does fieldwork in the extreme isolation of Antarctica, he finds himself also examining a single year…
Touch Me had its world première at Sundance Film Festival, 28 Jan 2025 “I want you to tell me a story, but not a real story – altered, ridiculous, fantastical,” says therapist Dr Kelly (Ashley Lauren Nedd) from behind her desk, in what are the opening words of Addison Heimann‘s Touch Me. Kelly explains that this…
Wild Fire begins at dawn – a liminal time of change. There is an immaculate garden surrounded by trees and full of birdsong, and beyond it a beautiful modernist home. Upstairs in the bedroom, a glass and wine bottle sit on the floor, and a silk robe lies discarded on the end of the bed….
Midnight Peepshow had its world première at FrightFest 2022 The title Midnight Peepshow not only offers a titillating promise of after-hours voyeuristic smut, but also advertises the film’s status as a ‘midnight movie’. It will deliver both. Set late at night in Soho, London’s one-time centre of sex, sleaze and sin, and taking place on…
Romance first published by Little White Lies, as the 84th entry in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Romance is a genre. It is that branch of erotic fiction typically filling the gaping crack between love and sex, fantasy and reality, and ultimately marrying its lead couple to a happy ending. So writer/director Catherine Breillat’s choice of…
Destricted first published by Film4 Synopsis: Seven (or so) short films about the relationship between sex and art, including work from Matthew Barney (Cremaster) , Gaspar Noé (Irréversible) and Kids director Larry Clark Review: Not a porn film as such but a film about porn and the representation of sex on screen, Destricted still follows…