Let’s be honest, dolls have always been creepy, and even the best attempts to make them more lifelike have left them in that uncomfortable Uncanny Valley. There’s just something unsettling about them that we couldn’t put our fingers on… until the supernatural slasher Child’s Play. Some presents are bought with the
By Louise Agostino. Mandy is a new film by director Panos Cosmatos, who employs a similar hallucinatory dream-like atmosphere as in his debut film Beyond the Black Rainbow. Mandy came out at this year’s BFI and a week later finding itself in independent cinemas. Well for starters I had to have paracetamol after the
There was a lot of anticipation around Quantum of Solace, as there is with every James Bond film. This one in particular, though, as the anticipation of seeing the follow up to Casino Royale - the film that brilliantly redefined the series - and was also met with hesitation as to whether
The Favourite leads the list of nominations for the 2018 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) announced this morning by British actors Ellie Bamber and Arinzé Kene at the Everyman Cinema, King’s Cross. Yorgos Lanthimos’s black comedy about the 18th century court of Queen Anne is recognized for Best British Independent
Song Chuan’s second feature Ciao Ciao puts a microscope over country living in China by telling a homecoming story in a fresh, new way. The opening shots of the film are luscious wides of green mountains, with a fancy car driving through a farmer and his herd. This is Ciao
