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Martha Marcy May Marlene
Martha Marcy May Marlene has been talked up since Sundance last year. Like a Polanski thriller, dread lurks round every bend in this chilling depiction of life in and outside a cult.
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Holy Rollers director interview
It’s fair to say that ‘Hasidic Jews’ and ‘drug smugglers’ are two ideas that you generally don’t see together in, well, anything. However, new director Kevin Asch has crafted an…
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Life In A Day
July 24th 2010 is the day in question, and Life In A Day is the end result of footage collated from people in 192 countries around the world. The brief…
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In the Loop
The massed ranks of Ianucci fans will have trouble staying calm at the prospect of his feature length debut. Expanding his hit series The Thick of It to the big…
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Ballast
Ballast’s heft precedes it. Having won plaudits at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, US critics then heaped further praise on Lance Hammer’s directorial debut when he fended off offers…
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Animal Kingdom
Australian director David Michôd kicked off his film career with a bang when his debut feature, Animal Kingdom, won the World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance 2010. It's been a…
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Catfish
One of the big hits out of Sundance this year was Catfish. It follows Yaniv “Nev” Schulman, a New York photographer, and his correspondence with an eight-year-old Michigan girl named…
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The London Underground Film Festival
Somewhere in London something stirs. In the heart of the ancient city, near the art-deco splendour of the University of London’s Senate House, near that bastion to imperialist decadence The…
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Heartbreaker
British romantic comedy is in the Doldrums. Hollywood, birthplace of the screwball comedy, is now bloated by A-list vanities like Valentine’s Day. Last year’s Oscar winner was about Iraq, the…
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The Killer Inside Me
Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of the 1962 Jim Thompson novel The Killer Inside Me has set a new precedent for violence against women in cinema, but is the trumped up controversy…
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