Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
The wordy and unusual title of this film stems from its background: Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol produced a web series independently commencing in 2007, in which they appear as…
Pluto
An ultra-low budget feature written by, directed and starring Ari Frenkel in the title role. Pluto lives without responsibilities care of an inherited trust fund, providing a room in his…
Danger Mouse
When Danger Mouse was first broadcast in the 1980s, I confess that I took its photographic London backdrops and regular scenes of characters walking through dark passageways, only their eyes…
Return to Silent Hill
The long-running Silent Hill video game series is regularly lauded as ahead of its time, daring to buck the trends of the genre of jump-scares and gore in favour of…
Marmalade
Billed as a romantic heist film, Marmalade has more in common with The Usual Suspects than it does to True Romance or A Life Less Ordinary. It is a movie…
Relaxer
Reportedly based on the already challenging film The Exterminating Angel, Joel Potrykus’s Relaxer may not be a comfortable watch for all audiences. Towards the end of 1999, obsessive, impressionable Abbie…
Merge
Billed as a feature, Merge is actually a compilation of six earlier science fiction short films. This is more like a film festival than a feature, given the lack of…
Caveat
Writer and director Damian McCarthy asks a lot of his viewers in his feature film debut, but those willing to suspend disbelief for 90 minutes will be rewarded with gothic…
Oddity
A year on from her sister’s murder, Darcy (Carolyn Bracken,) a woman who believes herself to be psychic, visits the labyrinthine country home of her brother-in-law, psychiatrist Ted (Gwilym Lee)…
Trafic
Monsieur Hulot returns for his final screen appearance, and, after a series of films in which Jacques Tati cast his character as apparently unemployed, or barely employed, we find Hulot…