by Matthew Lee, March 12, 2010 2:25 PM
[With pan-Nordic thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo screening at SXSW we now re-post our earlier review from the film's appearance in Leeds.]Yes, it comes with baggage. How could it not? In one sense Swedish author Stieg Larsson...
by Matthew Lee, November 25, 2009 3:19 PM
(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival which ran from 4th-22nd November 2009. Didn't see a Twitch review for this at all, so here we are.) The biggest problem with Yōjirō Takita's Departures is probably how utterly...
by Matthew Lee, November 25, 2009 3:09 PM
(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival which ran from 4th-22nd November 2009.) Virtual worlds as depicted in film and television can be something of a sore point for many people. It doesn't take a geek to...
by Matthew Lee, November 14, 2009 12:36 PM
(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.)What makes the Decaillon Brothers' vampire thriller Sodium Babies so special? It's an obvious calling card, yes, messy, gaudy and hyper-kinetic, throwing every low-budget editing...
by Matthew Lee, November 13, 2009 10:11 AM
As well as the feature films competing for the Silver Melies at the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival, there were also seven shorts in competition to be nominated for a chance to go on to win their own Melies D'Or....
by Matthew Lee, November 12, 2009 4:11 PM
(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.)Two cars, three people and a city after dark. It's not a great deal to work with, and it's hardly the most original idea ever conceived...
by Matthew Lee, November 12, 2009 11:34 AM
We came, we saw, we decided - I was honoured (and pretty surprised, to be honest!) to be invited to sit on the jury at the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival to select the winner of the Silver Melies...
by Matthew Lee, November 11, 2009 12:55 PM
Short notice unless you're in the area, more than likely, but on the offchance - the good people at the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival (still ongoing until the 22nd November) would like to let you know about their upcoming...
by Matthew Lee, November 11, 2009 9:38 AM
(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.) It's not quite what prospective audiences may well be thinking. Yes, Tom Six's The Human Centipede is bizarre and not a little disturbing; yes,...
by Matthew Lee, November 11, 2009 9:25 AM
(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.) It's always frustrating to see a director missing the point. Manly and self-righteous though most of eighties action cinema was, the best films of...
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