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06:51 AM - Feb 11, 2023
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"myth and modernity wash violently against each other in a fragile coastal utopia": C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi's shimmering West African parable MAMI WATA (2023) screens 7.30pm tonight at Taliesin Arts Centre for WOW Wales One World Film Festival https://projectedfigures.c...
03:14 AM - Mar 19, 2024
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"While not superior to the original, Jonathan Demme’s paranoid conspiracy psycho-thriller is still a superior remake": THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004) rings the changes on political manipulation in America. On 4K UHD from today via Kino Lorber
03:07 AM - Mar 19, 2024
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"a holy fool on an (un)orthodox spiritual journey in occupied Estonia": Rainer (NOVEMBER) Sarnet’s hard-rocking, genre-crossing kung fu comedy THE INVISIBLE FIGHT (NÄHTAMATU VÕITLUS) (2023) is on US VOD from today via Kino Lorber
03:03 AM - Mar 19, 2024
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School's out: Clare Cooney's feature debut DEPARTING SENIORS "casts a queer eye over the tropes of the high school slasher". Screens 9pm tonight at NFT1 for BFI Flare https://projectedfigures.c...
02:59 AM - Mar 19, 2024
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"melodramatic, melancholic mystery finds noirish intrigue and tragic romance in an anomaly at the edge of postwar quantum physics": Timm Kröger’s THE UNIVERSAL THEORY (DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM) (2023) screens 5.45pm this evening at Manchester Film Festival. Superb!
04:47 AM - Mar 18, 2024
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“Mitch Jenkins’ sci-fi chamber piece effortlessly transcends restrictions of budget and location in pursuit of its ambitious ideas”: A MILLION DAYS (2023) is on digital from today via Signature Entertainment https://projectedfigures.c...
04:42 AM - Mar 18, 2024
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"As [Sonny] Chiba’s first martial arts film, this was also PR for the badass actor": Ryûichi Takamori's BODYGUARD KIBA (1973) platforms a high-kicking hard man's services. Now on a double Blu with its sequel via Eureka!. Capsule for LWL https://lwlies.com/article...
04:38 AM - Mar 18, 2024
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Vicarious t̶h̶r̶i̶l̶l̶s̶ kills: Brandon Cronenberg's POSSESSOR (2020) is on Ltd Edn 4K UHD/Blu from today via Second Sight Films, including a booklet essay from me. Meanwhile, here is my review from its theatrical release. https://projectedfigures.c...
04:22 AM - Mar 18, 2024
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"a martial arts film of a rather philosophical bent, constantly calling into question the meaning and value of the very conflicts that constitute its genre" Joseph Kuo's THE SWORDSMAN OF ALL SWORDSMEN (1968) now on Ltd Edn Blu from Eureka https://lwlies.com/article...
04:13 AM - Mar 18, 2024
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Nazi punks fuck off!: Jeremy Saulnier's tense thriller GREEN ROOM (2015) shows working-class America under siege from the far right. On Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray from today via Second Sight Films https://projectedfigures.c...
04:04 AM - Mar 18, 2024
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"a ghost story of maternity and madness that is, beyond all its dripping atmosphere and uncanny creepiness, awash with moving waves of melancholy and loss": Hideo Nakata's DARK WATER (2002) on 4K UHD from today via Arrow Video. https://lwlies.com/article...
03:52 AM - Mar 18, 2024
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Brief, unusually autobiographical and tyically befuddled account of the the movie posters that were on the bedroom wall of my adolescence, with ERASHERHEAD better than a mirror https://projectedfigures.c...
06:25 AM - Mar 17, 2024
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“You can’t feed yourself with white sand brain death”: Brandon Cronenberg’s resort-set third feature INFINITY POOL (2023) "dives deep into a blocked writer’s fantasies and fears". Liminal, littoral, extraordinary. https://projectedfigures.c...
05:21 AM - Mar 17, 2024
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First darkly funny, and then just dark, Bent Hamer's deadpan THE MIDDLE MAN (2021) is "a small-town story of misery euphemised and murder repressed". Recommended. https://projectedfigures.c...
04:49 AM - Mar 17, 2024
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"defies the viewer to turn away from its many mediated recordings of darkness approaching": Justin Janowitz’s multi-layered found footage DO NOT WATCH (2023) to screen 7pm, 30 March at Unnamed Footage Festival https://projectedfigures.c...
12:51 PM - Mar 16, 2024
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"a bleak tragedy of vengeance as misdirected as it is disproportionate, with the innocent repeatedly suffering for the sins of the monstrously guilty – or else becoming monsters themselves": Marina de Van's DARK TOUCH (2013), 11.15pm tonight on NYX UK
05:23 AM - Mar 16, 2024
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"Saïd Belktibia’s feminist thriller sees an independent, entrepreneurial mother falling foul of her community’s hypocritical patriarchy": HOOD WITCH (2023) re-screens 9.45pm tonight at SXSW https://projectedfigures.c...
04:56 AM - Mar 16, 2024
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"Kourtney Roy’s (creature?) feature debut tracks a Lynchian woman lost in the woods on a confused search for a missing cyptozoologist": KRYPTIC (2024) re-screens 6.45pm tonight at SXSW https://projectedfigures.c...
03:51 AM - Mar 15, 2024
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Time crime primer: Michael Felker's outstanding sci-fi feature THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT (2024) "traps fugitive siblings on a rural property, in time, and in a looping legacy of family tragedy". Re-screens 6.15pm today at SXSW. Don't miss!
03:47 AM - Mar 15, 2024
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"Robert Morgan’s metacinematic psychodrama tracks the uneasy gestation of an original work by an unravelling animator": STOPMOTION (2023) is on Shudder (everywhere) from today. Highly recommended. https://projectedfigures.c...
03:36 AM - Mar 15, 2024
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A new kind of skin flick: RABID (1977), David Cronenberg's epidemic apocalypse of id, screens 9.30pm tonight on NYX UK https://projectedfigures.c...
03:31 AM - Mar 15, 2024
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"Phillip Noyce’s charming if melancholic Southern gangland caper grants an old mob fixer a new lease of love and life": FAST CHARLIE (2023) is on UK Amazon Prime from today via Signature Entertainment https://projectedfigures.c...
03:25 AM - Mar 15, 2024
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"a tough stripper finds herself lost in the woods, and in the the company of men": Annick Blanc’s dreamy feature debut HUNTING DAZE (JOUR DE CHASSE, 2024) re-screens 9pm and 9.30pm at Violet Crown Austin for SXSW https://projectedfigures.c...
04:08 AM - Mar 14, 2024
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Bucks and birds: Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s tense feature debut BIRDEATER (2023) "shows a bride-to-be semi-willingly trapped in the bachelor boys’ backwardness." Re-screens 6pm and 6.30pm today at Violet Crown Austin for SXSW https://projectedfigures.c...
04:05 AM - Mar 14, 2024
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"Helena Stefánsdóttir’s domestic mystery dives deep into the uncanny aquarium of an estranged family’s secrets and dysfunction": NATATORIUM (2024) re-screens 2.30pm and 3pm today at SXSW https://projectedfigures.c...
04:01 AM - Mar 14, 2024
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Adventures in the skin trade: Mike Cheslik's absurdly inventive, beautifully stylised feature debut HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS "rewrites America’s colonial history as surreally violent silent comedy". In Laemmle Royal from today, Laemmle Glendale tomorrow
03:59 AM - Mar 14, 2024
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"Anna Biller’s pastiche of Seventies sexploitation flicks finds its G-spot somewhere in the space between past misogyny and present feminism." VIVA (2007) now on digital via Kino Film Collection
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03:52 AM - Mar 14, 2024
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"the closer this intense action star comes to the rôles he typically plays, the more absurdly postmodern the exercise becomes": Yûdai Yamaguchi's meta martial arts movie ONE PERCENTER (2023) now on Blu/digi via Third Window. Capsule for LWL https://lwlies.com/article...
07:59 AM - Mar 13, 2024
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"Falling somewhere between Taxi Driver, Maniac and neon-lit neo-noir, Ferrari’s tawdry feature anatomises Manhattan vice in much the way that the killer carves up his victims": FEAR CITY (1984) now on Blu via 101 Films. Capsule for LWLies https://lwlies.com/article...
07:48 AM - Mar 13, 2024
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"Hampton Fancher’s directorial debut finds in its sociopathic serial poisoner a toxically nihilistic mirror for Generation Blank": THE MINUS MAN (1999)
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04:47 AM - Mar 13, 2024
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