By Orla Smith. Jenny Lu's The Receptionist lets us know we're in London through a series of establishing shots: recognisable landmarks amongst a sea of towering buildings, shot through cinematographer Gareth Munden's hazy lens. It's a place we all recognise, but this time it's home to a story we don't. Lu's characters
In Pursuit of Silence is a documentary from director Patrick Shen. "
By Marti Dols Roca. Ghostroads: a Japanese rock’n roll ghost story. With a title as explicit as it gets, Ghostroads (2017, Mike Rogers, Enrico Ciccu, Les Decidious Jr., and Ken Nishikawa) proposes a classical rock’n roll tale (main character having to decide between fame and friends-band-girlfriend-integrity) and it delivers exactly what it
By Orla Smith. Blood Simple is an apt title for the Coen brothers' debut feature. The phrase originated in Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest, in which 'blood simple' describes the addled mindset of a person in the midst of violence. Those two words are also fitting when separated. This is a
Whoever holds the rights to John Denver’s work must be rolling in it this year. I’ve heard his song Take Me Home, Country Roads three times this year. Although, seeing as the other two uses of it were in sci-fi films of all things, at least Logan Lucky makes sense.
