Schneider vs Bax
Alex van Warmerdam is back with a new film, and the Dutch director has a very original and entertaining spin on the hitman movie genre in SCHNEIDER VS BAX.
Category Archives: Festival Coverage
The Bunker
What THE BUNKER lacks in substance it certainly makes up for in style and the inventiveness of its colourfully surreal situations.
Louder than Bombs
Huppert is the one vital element that holds all the other meticulously crafted pieces of LOUDER THAN BOMBS together, structurally and emotionally.
Parisienne
PARISIENNE’s greatest asset is a strong sympathetic central performance from Manal Issa as an 18 year old Lebanese woman in a foreign land.
Land of Mine
Even if you think you know what is coming next, you can’t look away from LAND OF MINE for even a second, writes Noel Megahey.
WOW Film Festival
The big theme for this year’s WOW Film Festival was ‘F-rated’: films centred around women, either made by female directors, or films about women.
Watersprite: Relationships
Garry Pope reviews three brilliant short films in the “Relationships” series, from three confident filmmakers at Watersprite this year.
Watersprite: Emotions
Copulating dogs, explicit sex talk and full-frontal puppet nudity: Stephen Watson reviews the “Emotions” strand of shorts at Watersprite 2016.
Watersprite: Quests
The “Quests” collection at Watersprite is made up of four different short films, all about characters on journeys, writes Garry Pope.
Watersprite: Self-Questioning
Garry Pope reviews “Self-Questioning”, a set of short films from three frighteningly talented directors, at the 2016 Watersprite Festival.