Milius
Everybody in Hollywood, or at least everybody of a certain vintage, has a story to tell about John Milius.
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My Amityville Horror
Eric Walter’s fine, puzzling documentary focusses largely on Daniel Lutz as he recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting in 1975.
Review by Mark Stafford
The Wicker Man: The Final Cut
Cult folk horror The Wicker Man still has the feel of a film apart, an island detached from the mainstream.
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Sleepwalker
Saxon Logan’s horror satire is a condensed state of the nation, four-hander play whose genes have been spliced with a giallo slasher.
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Nowhere
The final film in Araki’s Teen Apocalypse trilogy is a giddy feat of laugh-out-loud audacity, and a plate-spinning act that barely holds it together.
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The Act of Killing
The questions this documentary raises about power and truth and the lies we tell ourselves will windmill through your mind for long after viewing.
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Mud
Jeff Nichols’s third feature is a quality piece of filmmaking, although he doesn’t follow through on his set up of the classic Americana rites of passage.
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The ABCs of Death
An anthology film made by 26 directors, with lo-fi naturalism next to cartoon expressionism, art house butting up against gross Animation.
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Dead Head
Aired only once by the BBC in 1986, but never forgotten, Dead Head is a four-part fever dream of a stylised class-war thriller aimed at the heart of a sick Establishment.
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Compliance
An effective, nasty little film from Craig Zobel.
Review by Mark Stafford