Day: March 26, 2021

Reviews, SXSW Film Festival

Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror – SXSW Review

by Jordan King The first feature from festival programmer, author, and Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies founder Kier-La Janisse, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror represents a mammoth undertaking for a debut filmmaker. Drawing on a history as deep as the Earth that claws back those in pursuit of progress, and boldly (rightly) claiming its status as the definitive article on … Continue reading Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror – SXSW Review

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Reviews

Ammonite – Review

by Chris Connor Francis Lee’s 2017 God’s Own Country has won him plaudits the world over, opening up the Yorkshire landscape for a flood of tourists and ensuring he is a director to be reckoned with.  His latest film is the Jurassic Coast set 19th Century piece Ammonite, depicting the real life Fossil Collector and Palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) as she strikes up a … Continue reading Ammonite – Review

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BFI Flare Film Festival, Reviews

Cowboys – BFI Flare 2021 Review

by Nathan Osborne  Writer-director Anna Kerrigan tells a moving and tender tale in Cowboys, a directorial debut which announces a strong new talent and offers some much-needed, positive trans representation to our screens. When recently separated parents clash on how to best raise their transgender son, Joe, father Troy runs off with him into the Monana wilderness, hoping it will give him the best chance … Continue reading Cowboys – BFI Flare 2021 Review

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BFI Flare Film Festival, Reviews

No Ordinary Man – BFI Flare 2021 Review

by Jordan King The creation of LGBTQIA+ cinema, particularly documentarian works, is an act of restoration and reclamation. The history of marginalised communities is so often found to have been erased or written in phobic terms by those on the outside of that lived experience that the very act of telling their lost and misrepresented stories is something revolutionary. With the UK premiere of documentary … Continue reading No Ordinary Man – BFI Flare 2021 Review

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Reviews, SXSW Film Festival

Broadcast Signal Intrusion – SXSW 2021 Review

by Anton Bitel Broadcast Signal Intrusion opens with a video recording that resolves into a dream. A woman runs happily through a field, and a man pursues her with a camera. Then she stops, swaying in the mist, her face turned away, and we get his, or at least his camera’s, point of view of her back, until she spins around again to reveal that … Continue reading Broadcast Signal Intrusion – SXSW 2021 Review

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