Them (Ils) first published by Film4 Summary: David Moreau and Xavier Palud’s bare-bones feature debut makes the whole slash-and-dash genre look like child’s play. Review: After their car breaks down at night in the middle of nowhere, a bickering mother and daughter are picked off one after the other by unseen assailants. While Them (Ils) may open…
American Animals first published by RealCrime Magazine “This is not based on a true story,” reads text at the beginning of Bart Layton’s American Animals – only for the words ‘not based on’ to disappear. This latest from the director of documentary The Imposter (2012) reconstructs a very real library heist that was conducted at the…
American Made first published by RealCrime Magazine American Made claims to be “based on a true story”, but the life and death of Adler ‘Barry’ Seal are mired in all manner of controversy and conspiracy theory. According to the film, he was a cigar-smuggling TWA pilot recruited by the CIA in 1978 first to fly reconnaissance…
Text version of an introduction to a screening of Lee Seok-hoon’s The Himalayas that I gave at a screening put on by the Korean Cultural Centre UK on 4 Aug 2016. “Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?” This was the question that a New York Times journalist once asked of seasoned mountaineer George Mallory. It’s…
Review originally published on EyeforFilm. Sometimes a film can take on the character of its protagonist in the particulars of its style, and so it is that Richard Linklater’s Bernie, like the man after whom it is named, is joyously camp and colourful, and not a little eccentric – even unhinged. Bernhardt Tiede II is…