Santa Sangre
Sadistic and painful, seductive and playful: SANTA SANGRE is an eye-popping visual adventure that proves how imaginative cinema can be, writes H. Chan.
Category Archives: Reviews
Combat Girls
With a cleverly woven plot and authentic performances, particularly from the mesmerising Alina Levshin, COMBAT GIRLS is incredibly watchable, even though the drama occasionally resorts to cliché, writes Lillie Davidson.
Sprites 11
Sarah Longfield reviews SPRITES 11, a collection of 18 short films, pop videos and animations hand-picked by digital arts organisation onedotzero, showing as part of the Family Film Festival.
V. O. S.
V.O.S. portrays a film being filmed within a film, where the four principal characters are also the actors who play them. Bridget Bradshaw attempts to untangle Cesc Gay’s original rom-com.
Octonauts
Chris White and her children have seen all three of the episodes screened at CFF more times than she cares to remember, but they have not fallen out of love with the Octonauts yet.
Trattoria/Robyn O/Early Birds
The highlight of a trio of dramas, the tense but heartwarming TRATTORIA leads us through the dark and musky atmosphere of a chaotic city street, into a disturbing German gang-land, writes Jack McCurdy.
Sinister
SINISTER promises much but eventually gives ways to sighs at generic cliches and the dense detective lead, writes Edd Elliott.
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
JASON BECKER: NOT DEAD YET gallantly attempts to lift the lid on a degenerative condition, and is an uplifting and closely-stitched documentary bolstered with an extraordinary spirit, writes Huw Oliver.
On The Road
Like the characters in ON THE ROAD, visual and aural hedonism will distract you from the clear self-indulgence and lack of control – but only up to a point, writes Jim Ross.
ShortFusion: To Be In the Present
If one film from TO BE IN THE PRESENT should be put in the spotlight, it is GRACE by Keir & Dieudonnee Burrows, which beautifully portrays different characters whose fates are all linked, suggests Max Zeh.