Doomed love with a straight twist, Gus Van Sant’s Restless hides a Last Days morbidity in a quirky teenage romance between a terminally ill girl and a funeral mourner.
Restless
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
I can understand why Restless hasn’t been well received. Yes, it’s an anaesthetic story about cancer, a teenage-angsty [...]
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Film Review: Restless (2011)
October 25th, 2011 No Comments
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Film Review: R – Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010)
August 25th, 2011 No Comments
Playing the waiting game, Noer and Lindholm’s R: Hit First, Hit Hardest reveals the bitter, cinematic truth about life behind bars in a Danish prison.
R: Hit First, Hit Hardest
Sinnerman by Mark Wilshin
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Like a Danish, and rather belated, sequel to Fritz Lang’s chilling 1931 masterpiece M, Michael Noer and Tobias Lindholm’s R sees our [...]
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Film Review: The Killer Inside Me (2010)
June 3rd, 2010 No Comments
Violent and misogynistic, Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me adapts Jim Thompson’s noir novel to expose ’50s America’s darker side. It’s pulp friction.
The Killer Inside Me
In The Mood For Killing by Mark Wilshin
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From its Eames-style geometric opening titles, there’s a patina of Bakelite and melamine that seeps through Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside [...]
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Film Review: A Single Man (2009)
February 18th, 2010 No Comments
A Single Man
Colin Firth mesmerises as a grieving gay college professor, but can dressing Isherwood’s novel up in a sharp new suit say anything about 21st century queerdom?
The Unbearable Lightness of Loafers by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Watching A Single Man just days after the suicide of gay fashion guru Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford’s debut [...]
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