Director – Ole Bornedal – 2023 – Denmark – 110m ****1/2 A law student’s daughter takes on his old morgue nightwatchman’s job to find out about the killer who traumatised her parents – out on Shudder UK from Friday, May 17th WARNING: don’t watch this sequel until you’ve seen the original Nightwatch (1994). That’s easy […]
Director – David Mackenzie – 2011 – UK – Cert. 15 – 92m ***** Love story set in a pandemic captures something of the emotions felt during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, when this review was written (one of the first to appear on this then fledgeling site) – streaming on the Arrow Channel from Friday, […]
Director – Masaaki Yuasa – 2021 – Japan – Cert. – 98m ***1/2 In fourteenth century Japan, a blind musician and a deformed, masked dancer shake up the culturally staid world of Noh theatre by forming a hugely popular rock band – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, September 28th You never quite know what […]