Indy Datta reviews M. Night Shyamalan’s low-budget horror flick. After the jump, you will find both things that go bump in the night and real no-fooling spoilers.
Category Archives: New Releases
Legend
In which Tom Hardy throws down the gauntlet to Spandau Ballet. Kate le Vann was your roving reviewer on the spot at one of the film’s first screenings, at the Cambridge Film Festival.
Closed Curtain
Yasmeen Khan reviews Jafar Panahi’s 2013 Silver Bear winner, which reaches our screens this week.
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David Cronenberg, Hippie
Niall Anderson looks at the early work of cinema’s favourite bodyhorror auteur
Trainwreck
Gareth Negus reviews Amy Schumer’s breakthrough movie. Was it a Super Advance First Class or… no, you’re right, that’s not going to work at all. Sorry.
Amy Sings the Blues
Asif Kapadia’s documentary about the life and death of Amy Winehouse has been a fixture in the London top ten since its release. It has been praised for its sensitivity and dedication to a ‘true’ picture of Winehouse. But does it just follow a standard narrative for jazz musicians in the movies? Sarah and Martin Slade compare and contrast with the biopic of another jazz legend, Billie Holiday.
Hard to be a God
Paul Duane on the late Alexei German’s last, and maybe most singular, film, which reaches British screens this week.
Diary of a Teenage Girl
Sex, betrayal and ‘ludes in Me Decade San Francisco in Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s semi-autobiographical graphic-and-prose novel. A review by Indy Datta.
Best of Enemies
Paul Duane interviews Robert Gordon about the new documentary, which takes a look back at the 1968 televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley jr.
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