Parasite (Gisaengchoong) first published by VODzilla.co Parasite (Gisaengchoong) opens with a street-level view, partially obstructed by socks hanging from the ceiling, through the upper window of a semi-basement apartment, before the camera tilts down to twenty-something Kim Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) inside, trying to get reception on his mobile phone. From the moment that Ki-woo declares,…
Candyman first published by Little White Lies, as entry 68 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Graduate student Helen (Virginia Madsen) and her colleague Bernadette Walsh (Kasi Lemmons) are recording younger undergraduates tell macabre, can’t-really-be-true stories that happened to a friend of a friend, for a study on urban myths. The first such myth that Helen…
Street Trash first published by VODzilla.co “In 1965, I bet it all,” says an ageing derelict (Morty Storm) in his thick Brooklyn accent, as he buys a discount bottle of hooch from low-rent liquor store owner Ed (M. D’Jango Krunch). “I bet everything. My wife, my kids. Everything went.” It is a brief and elegant hard-luck…
First published by Little White Lies, as part 20 of my Cinema Psychotronicum column “Don’t measure your neighbour’s honesty by your own,” reads the ‘American proverb’ that opens Marcus Dunstan’s third feature after The Collector (2009) and its sequel The Collection (2012). Which is to say that The Neighbour begins with a suggestion not only…