A question posed to me on the Friday night before watching Animals, after I mentioned that the premise of the film is about female relationships, was as to whom the title refers in that instance. Were the animals, in this film, a reference to humans instead or to the foxes that appear in a few scenes?
Whether this was a conscious decision or a successful co-incidence but having the release of the 4K restoration of the timeless classic Don’t Look Now on the same release date as Ari Aster’s Midsommar was cinema magic at its best! Watching the two films back to back, the inevitable comparisons could be drawn easily and even from the similarity of the weather based opening scenes of the two films, the influence of Don’t Look Now on Midsommar, as a predecessor, is obvious.
Christmas in July has become a recent phenomenon and certainly there was the sensation of being transported to the Christmas period whilst watching All Good Things in the summertime!
Fortunately, there had not been any spoilers published about The Last Tree from the press screenings that occurred earlier in the week during the Sundance London film festival. However, from the short, positive comments that were made, the anticipation built up that this was going to be one of the […]
With an opening scene referencing a quote from Exodus 20:5 in the Bible, regarding the punishment of the sins of the fathers onto their children, and a sepia coloured photograph of three young boys, The Last Rampage, essentially sets out its underlying themes from the outset.
After missing the screenings of Birds of Passage during the 2018 London Film Festival, I was fortunate to watch this film at a preview for the Reclaim the Frame project by the charity, Birds’ Eye View.
