Out of seeing Othello with Lucian Msamati as Iago. Fucking brilliant. He plays the role in a way I’ve never seen, a man heartbroken by betrayal from Othello, whose revenge is not one of cynical ambition or even psychopathic mischief, but of deep-centred, soul-destroying passion and need. He infuses his performance with ambiguity as to…
And finishing with There Are Monsters, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers with added shakycam. It’s chief virtue is the pithy dialogue, an enjoyable watch.
Watching it in a theatre resounding with sighs and sniffs. By the end I was just sobbing into my hands and had to go wash my face in the sink just make a decent showing of myself. It’s about a family divided during the Cultural Revolution in China, trying to heal in the aftermath. It’s…
You would love it. A beautiful, mostly dialogueless, story about a boy’s discovery of the world, and its disappointments, with a heavy emphasis on class conflict.
A silly funny horror about a guy fusing to a clown costume and transforming into a child-eating demon.
God, they really take care of you when you go to a FrightFest movie, I feel like a VIP.
No bad.
I wanted to see this coz pretty much every film is made in New Zealand but how many have you seen actually set there? Especially pre-colonial? For that reason, a by-the-numbers boy-avenged-his-father plot remains engaging because it’s in the larger framework of a world we never see. Very much enjoyed it.
This was my most looked forward to film of the festival, with an opening line in the blurb of ” In the fictitious Iranian ghost town, a lonely, hijab-wearing female vampire stalks the streets by night in search of prey.” And I fucking loved it! It had me from the very first scene of a…