The Peril at Pincer Point had its world première at SXSW, 14 March 2026 “Lets talk about your creative process, shall we?”, asks Bill Pronopoulos (Jason Hogan) in Gared Studios near the beginning of The Peril at Pincer Point. Bill is reading the riot act to sound recordist Jim Baitte (Jack Redmayne), who despite a…
Ghost Ship first published (in slightly different form) by Daily Info, 27 Jan 2003 It is May the 21st, 1962. Aboard the luxury Italian ocean liner Antonia Graza, a little girl (Emily Browning) looks on, bored, as well-groomed adult passengers dance together above deck. On the bridge, after a switch is furtively pushed to ‘massimo’,…
Triangle of Sadness first published by VODzilla.co With his features Play (2011), Force Majeure (2014) and The Square (2017), Swedish writer/director Ruben Östlund established himself as a keen observer of human drama and comedy. If the title of his latest, Triangle of Sadness, sounds like a riddle, it is solved very early in the film,…
The very form of the title Human, Space, Time and Human (Inkan, gongkan, sikan grigo inkan) evokes Kim Ki-duk‘s Spring, Summer, Autumn Winter… and Spring (2003), and promises a similarly cyclical view of human experience. This time, however, life unfolds not on and around a monastery floating on a remote lake, but on a shabby…
[Rec] Apocalypse first published by FilmLand Empire Let’s rewind. In the mid Noughties, when both the zombie and the shakicam subgenres of horror had not quite reached their peak, a duo of Spanish directors – Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró – innovatively combined the two, threw in a bit of possession lore at the end, and…