Wu Tsang's Wildness

Wildness – Reviewed

06/11/2012

Wu Tsang’s first feature Wildness is a confident, touching and highly promising one, finds  Justin Lewis…  Filmmaker, artist and activist Wu Tsang was praised earlier this year in the Whitney Biennial and Outfest in...

The Creator Al & Al

Who is The Creator?

05/11/2012

The Creator, a film about Alan Turing, was conceived by the only filmmakers who could have made it, says Laura Brown… History is what those who have power write down. Poor you if...

Room 237

Room 237 – a cineaste’s delight

02/11/2012

DW Mault on new film Room 237, and the continuing enigma of, and fascination with, Stanley Kubrick… Cinema from its birth has welcomed mystery; what Freud called the sense of the other, the...

Rust And Bone

Rust And Bone – Reviewed

31/10/2012

DW Mault finds beauty and truth in the existentialism of Rust And Bone… It seems a perfect time to be discussing the death of Anglo-Saxon narrative cinema, the morning after the announcement of...

Reel Unknown The Goonies

Goonies never say die!

19/10/2012

Rachael Jones ventures into the night for her second bite of the Reel Unknown experience… We’re going to start this review with a bold statement: we are, to quote Daphne Moon, ‘a little...

Dig!

Dig! – Previewed

10/10/2012

Dig! Or how not to get ahead in the music business… In 1995, Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s The Dandy Warhols were fast friends with Anton Newcombe and his band The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Set in...

Guy Maddin's Keyhole

Film Podcast #10: Guy Maddin’s Keyhole

03/10/2012

Film Podcast #10: Guy Maddin’s Keyhole by The Double Negative on Mixcloud DW Mault reviews Guy Maddin’s abstract thriller Keyhole. In a house haunted with memories, gangster and deadbeat dad Ulysses Pick arrives...

Reel Unknown Presents The Hidden Picture Show

Reel Unknown – Back with a Vengeance

01/10/2012

Rachael Jones quizzes the brains behind Reel Unknown about comedy, drive-thru cinema, and improving actors … Back in March I checked out Reel Unknown, a new ‘secret cinema’ event aimed at giving Liverpool’s...

The Birds

The Birds – Previewed

28/09/2012

Adam Scovell previews The Birds, one of Hitchcock’s most enigmatic offerings… Alfred Hitchcock’s later films tipped the pendulum more into the genre of horror than the rest of his works.  The likes of...