Action,
Drama,
Etrange 2011,
Frightfest 2011,
Grimm Up North 2011,
Horror,
Leeds 2011,
SXSW 2011,
Sitges 2011,
TAD2011,
Thriller
by Matthew Lee, January 9, 2012 3:21 AM
Xavier Gens' superb The Divide basically posits that should the bombs drop and the world get blown to radioactive splinters, the scariest thing that could happen wouldn't be finding out you were screwed. It'd be finding out that given the...
by Matthew Lee, November 20, 2011 2:34 PM
Horror's pretty dumb, right, when you get down to it? Subjecting ourselves to seedy vicarious thrills when if we took pleasure in the same things in real life we'd be clinically insane. Lots of people level this argument against genre...
by Matthew Lee, October 24, 2011 4:35 PM
Wong Ching-Po's salacious little thriller Revenge: A Love Story is the second film from production company 852 - who previously gave us Edmond Pang's Dream Home, an ultraviolent slasher (emphasis on ultra) where Pang's trademark sly social commentary sat somewhat...
Cult,
Drama,
Etrange 2011,
Exploitation,
Fantasia 2011,
Frightfest 2011,
Grimm Up North 2011,
Horror,
Sundance 2011,
TAD2011,
USA & Canada
by Matthew Lee, October 24, 2011 4:35 PM
What you get out of Lucky McKee's The Woman, a piece of ultraviolent drama that's brilliant and infuriating by turns, is probably dependent on how serious you think the director and his writing partner, novelist Jack Ketchum are being. The...
by Matthew Lee, September 19, 2011 4:11 PM
Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth's bizarre, chilling little character drama Meat certainly covers all the bases. Nearly every major synonym, metaphor or other interpretation of that one word is in there somewhere. Mostly it seems to be about people who've...
by Matthew Lee, September 19, 2011 4:11 PM
So is Yudai Yamaguchi's micro-budget horror-comedy Dead Ball a good film? The temptation is to say technically no... but you have to remember most people don't make the effort to watch a film where physical FX maestro Yoshihiro Nishimura is...
by Matthew Lee, September 15, 2011 1:21 PM
Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross is odd. More two hours of art appreciation than an conventional film, it tells the story (or possibly a story) of the artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder and what it was that led...
by Matthew Lee, September 15, 2011 1:21 PM
Drive is a confusing film: bear with me on this. The story's easy enough to follow - the taciturn anti-hero Driver (Ryan Gosling) breaks his vow of laissez-faire to help the mother and child who happen to be the first...
by Matthew Lee, September 13, 2011 3:22 PM
(Another retro screening from L'Etrange 2011. I'm aware some don't care for the film, think it's tasteless or lacks any real depth; I was absolutely blown away, so here's a review. Feel free to laugh at my wide-eyed enthusiasm.)Liliana Cavani's...
by Matthew Lee, September 13, 2011 3:22 PM
(Another retro screening from L'Etrange 2011, which I wanted to write a review for since I went in blind, ended up watching the whole thing and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to.) Kôji Wakamatsu's A Pool Without...
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