Boiling Point

Boiling Point (2021)

Boiling Point first published by VODzilla.co There is a scene in the middle of Philip Barantini’s Boiling Point when TV celebrity chef Alastair Skye (Jason Flemyng) flamboyantly adds a sprinkle of za’atar that he has just ostentatiously requested from waitress Robyn (Áine Rose Daly), to bring to his idea of perfection a dish that he…

VFW

VFW (2019)

VFW first published by SciFiNow Strap: Joe Begos pits old army vets against young drugged-up punks in this ultraviolent, postmodern, retrofuturist siege actioner. Every night, a group of ageing American ex-army men from the Vietnam – and in one case the Korean – War gathers at dingy VFW Post 2494, run by their fellow soldier…

Orthodox (2015)

First published in Sight & Sound, March 2016 Synopsis: London. Estranged as a boy from his father and the Jewish Orthodox community for his interest in pugilism, Benjamin Levy is now married to Rebecca (a converted gentile) with two young sons, and supplements the meagre earnings from his father’s butchery business with bare knuckle fights…