The Last Stop in Yuma County first published by VODzilla.co, 17 Jan 2025 In Arizona, Yuma is both a city and a county, but in a film title, the name is a shorthand evocation of a particular genre. For what Lesley Selander’s Fort Yuma (1955), Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma (1957, and James Mangold’s 2007…
“This had better be fucking good,” says police officer Catrin (Annes Elwy) at the beginning of Ryan Andrew Hooper’s feature debut The Toll, as she steps into the portable cabin where the Toll Booth Man (Michael Smiley) conducts his business. The latter – a dry, taciturn anonym – has been leading an equally anonymous life,…
Let The Corpses Tan first published by Sight & Sound, in a preview piece on the Cult strand from the London Film Festival 2017 The searing sun. A shot is heard. A bullet shell falls. Extreme close-ups on three faces. A gun is aimed. A man says, “I never miss, is this what you want?” A…