Swimming Home had its North American première at Tribeca, 10 Jun 2024 At the beginning of writer/director Justin Anderson’s feature debut Swimming Home, war journalist Isabel (Mackenzie Davis) and her intense, taciturn husband Josef (executive producer Christopher Abbott) have just picked up their former university professor Laura (Nadine Labaki) from the airport, and are on…
The Drowned (fka The Waterhouse) had its world première on Friday 27th Oct at the Halloween FrightFest The Drowned (fka The Waterhouse) opens with a wake. Not the kind that follows a funeral, but rather the kind left by a boat. For Eric (Alan Calton) is aboard a ferry, looking back at the messy churn…
Five Dedicated to Ozu first published (in 2003) by Movie Gazette – and my first dip into the oeuvre of the late Abbas Kiarostami… When MTV arrived in the 1980s, it heralded a whole new way of presenting images. The station’s in-house style – a hyperactive succession of chopped up visual stimuli designed to bludgeon into submission even…