Mud – Previewed
DW Mault finds danger and beauty in Mud, the latest flick forcing us to reassess Matthew McConaughey… Modern American literature is a bastard form of originality that sings from the descent of manifest...
New Almodóvar film? I’m So Excited!
Ahead of the release of Pedro Almodóvar’s new film I’m So Excited!, Nathan Richardson ponders whether the Spanish director has his head in the clouds, or rooted in reality… When it comes to...
Post Tenebras Lux – Previewed
Post Tenebras Lux won Carlos Reygadas best director at Cannes last year. Here, DW Mault argues it is a film helping light the way for Cinema’s next evolution… Is there a more perfect...
Bicycle Thieves – Previewed
Adam Scovell gets to grips with Bicycle Thieves, arguing the classic is unfairly burdened by its era… There are certain films that come with a great deal of baggage; a constant array of...
The Place Beyond The Pines
Despite the subterfuge of the trailer, DW Mault glimpses the wood through the trees, in The Place Beyond The Pines… An 11 year old recently said to me that if something isn’t comedic...
Film Podcast #28: A Late Quartet
Film Podcast #28: A Late Quartet by The Double Negative on Mixcloud DW Mault reviews Yaron Silberman’s drama, A Late Quartet. After playing together for 25 years, a classical string quartet are thrown...
Spring Breakers Dissected
DW Mault approaches Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, perhaps necessarily, from the blind side… Forget everything you’ve been taught. Start by dreaming. F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that there are no second acts in American...
All Tomorrow’s Parties
All Tomorrow’s Parties: the festival that’s so good they made a film out of it… Flicking through breakfast TV the other day, hovering over an episode of Frasier and moving on (having seen...
The New Czech Cinema
Watch out Romania, the Czech New Wave is coming… When we speak about new wave in the context of cinema, one’s mind will most readily (almost invariably) leap to names like Jean-Luc Godard...