Set in the dilapidated, dangerous and derelict Bad City, this adaptation of Ana Lily Amirpour’s own graphic novel sees two lonely, messed up souls find each other in a town where nobody seems to notice or care about the dead bodies that are mysteriously piling up. The black and white presentation
By Ben Hooper. ‘I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here…’ A man sits in a shabby Moscow apartment, with nought but a beer and a smoker’s cough for company. ‘He’s old, aggressive and angry,’ says his young interpreter, ‘He’s a cunt.’ He’s also not averse to telling a documentary
When Julianne Moore won Her Academy Award for her spellbinding performance as the slowly spiralling Alice in "Still Alice" this year, few argued her deserving of such accolade but those who had witnessed her turn in Cronenberg's latest (just a couple of months previous) wondered whether the wrong performance got
Another of 2014's underrated releases was Dan Gilroy's "Nightcrawler", more famous for Gyllenhaal's weight dropping than Box Office ignition, really should have got more arse-seat business. Almost a sub-genre all of it's own-recession porn, finds our protagonist Louis Bloom searching for a job, any job and stumbling into a blood
Chef is a film you should not watch hungry, in the same way you shouldn't go shopping on an empty stomach - you want everything in sight. In fact, even having ate I wanted every single dish that appeared on screen. The grilled cheese sandwich scene sets the tone of
