Coherence review
Shot over just five nights in writer/director James Ward Byrkit’s own home, Coherence takes a micro-budget dinner party set-up and injects a large dose of science fiction. But it’s not the science talk but the relationships between characters where the film’s really interesting ideas are hidden. The eight people that come together for dinner in Coherence start out the night with faintly visible cracks in … Read more
The Interview review
It seems highly likely that The Interview will now be remembered primarily as the film at the centre of one of the most high profile hacks in history and not, as might otherwise have happened, as a somewhat satirical and occasionally amusing comedy. When it comes to stickiness, those two ideas just don’t compare. For many … Read more
Selma review
It’s telling that Selma is called just that and not instead King, or maybe MLK. This may be a film with the commanding presence of Dr. Martin Luther King at the centre, but it’s also about a very specific time in a very specific place. By telling the story of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches of 1965, … Read more
Ned Rifle review
Hal Hartley‘s Ned Rifle completes a trilogy that began with 1997’s Henry Fool. At the time, Fool cemented Hartley’s reputation as a key figure in independent American film, and an artist with his own, very specific voice. In that first film of the series, Hartley introduces the dysfunctional Grim family before sending them into disarray with the arrival of the titular Henry (Thomas … Read more