Goonies never say die!
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! – Previewed
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...
Film Podcast #10: Guy Maddin’s Keyhole
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 – Back with a Vengeance
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 – Previewed
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...
Holy Motors – Un Film de Leos Carax
DW Mault finds himself very much at home in the strange and wonderful world of Leos Carax… Cinema is a home for dreamers, misfits and deadbeats. It’s been 13 long years but Alex...
Film Podcast #9: Our Top Ten Films of All Time
Film Podcast #9: Our Top Ten Films of All Time by The Double Negative on Mixcloud Special edition! DW Mault and our panel of writers, film critics and filmmakers introduce their top ten...
Shame: A selective history of compulsive behaviour in cinema
Nik Glover takes a look at cinema’s ongoing fascination with compulsion… We are in a nameless bar in New York. A man is seated at the counter, his attention elsewhere, drinking alone. A woman...
The Unexpected Guest in Cinema
Amy Roberts provides a filmic spin on Hospitality and The Uninvited Guest… When I’d read that Guardian art critic Adrian Seale had described this year’s Biennial theme of Hospitality and The Unexpected Guest...