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Andrea Riseborough Anchors Messy Reincarnation Drama ‘Here Before’ [SXSW Review]

March 18, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

A grief-stricken woman forms an unhealthy obsession with her new neighbour’s daughter in Here Before. [Read more…]

Filed Under: SXSW Tagged With: Andrea Riseborough, Eileen O’Higgins, Jonjo O’Neill, Lewis McAskie, Martin McCann, Niamh Dornan

‘Broadcast Signal Intrusion’ Is A Paranoid Descent Into Endless Mystery [SXSW Review]

March 17, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

What happens when you combine technophobia, conspiracy theory and a dogged investigation into the seedy underbelly of society? 

You get 90s throwback Broadcast Signal Intrusion. [Read more…]

Filed Under: SXSW Tagged With: Chris Sullivan, Harry Shum Jr, Jacob Gentry, James Swanton, Kelley Mack, Richard Cotovsky, Steve Pringle

‘The Feast’ Serves Up Beauty and Grand Guignol Carnage [SXSW Review]

March 17, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

Welsh film The Feast opens with an employee manning an oil drill stumbling away from a dig site, blood covering their face.

It’s visually disconnected from the cold, sterile environment where the rest of the film takes place, but this seemingly incongruous opening hangs heavy over a dinner party from hell.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: SXSW Tagged With: Annes Elwy, Bjørn Ståle Bratberg, Julian Lewis Jones, Lee Haven Jones, Lisa Palfrey, Nia Roberts, Rhodri Meillir, Roger Williams, Sion Alun Davies, Stefan Cennydd

‘Offseason’ Delivers Style Over Substance and Scares [SXSW Review]

March 17, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

What happens when you throw Silent Hill into a horror mumblecore blender?

You get Offseason! [Read more…]

Filed Under: SXSW Tagged With: Jeremy Gardner, Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, Melora Walters, Mickey Keating, Richard Brake

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I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

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  • ‘Fukushima 50’ Is A Dramatic Chronicle Of A Near Nuclear Disaster [Review]
  • ‘Jakob’s Wife’ Needs More Marriage And Less Vampire [Review]
  • ‘The Banishing’ Is A Stately, Sleepy Haunted House Film [He Said / She Said Review]

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