A crime investigation meets an incredibly strange creature in an oddly brilliant Argentinian curio.
Category: Review
Mind Games: Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor
The second feature film from Cronenberg Minor is an ambitious, challenging and flawed study of the battle to hold on to who we are.
America Divided – Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park
Peter Watkins’ Vietnam-era study of protest, politics and punishment remains timely, but it’s too much in love with sloganeering to win over hearts and minds.
Classic Albums Revisited: Toyah’s Sheep Farming In Barnet
Toyah’s debut album remains as startling, experimental and unsettling now as it was on its original release.
Pure Motorised Instinct: The Pleasure And Pain Of Dawn Of The Dead
the most beloved of horror films has never felt more timely – but it remains a film that signals its misanthropy rather too loudly for its own good.
Experiments In Drinking: The Wine Society’s Bellini Case
Prosecco cocktails in a box, just in time for Christmas.
Stardust To Stardust, Ashes To Ashes: The Disastrous New Bowie Biopic
Disowned by the family, the new David Bowie ‘origins’ film is even worse than you might have feared.
Classic Albums Revisited: Diana Ross
The soul diva’s legendary 1976 album – a project that feels thrown together but remains a classic recording and features her finest musical moment.
Raindance 2020: Eastern
Tradition and revenge in the wild west of modern Poland.
Raindance 2020: The Woman With Leopard Shoes
An impressively old-school yet very modern crime thriller that keeps you guessing throughout its many twists and turns.