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'Guilt and Shame: Going Straight' at the Soho Theatre, 9th October 2014
When you leave Going Straight, you'll be wearing a pretty princess tiara, you'll be worn out from dished out handjobs and a little sore at being simultaneously penetrated in every orifice at once....
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'10,000 Km' (2014) directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet [LFF 2014]
"In 2014, all that separates us are LCD displays. A flick of the fingers and we can conjure our loved ones like a genie from a bottle. Pixelated features swim down undersea fibres and refract off...
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'Charlie's Country' (2013) directed by Rolf de Heer [LFF 2014]
"David Gulpilil is the undisputed King of Aboriginal actors. Since his debut in Nicholas Roeg’s unforgettable Walkabout, followed a couple of years later by his stunning performance in Peter Weir’s The...
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'What's New Pussycat' by Silvia Ziranek at Feminist Fiesta 001, 11th October...
If you're standing in front of a banner that reads "FUCK THE FUCKING FUCKERS" you need to bring your A-game. This was hanging on the stage of Feminist Fiesta 001, a gathering of London's smartest,...
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'Mr Turner' (2014) directed by Mike Leigh [LFF 2014]
"Prior to Mr. Turner, I’d assumed J.M.W. Turner was some upper-class dork with a silly accent, spending his days flouncing around a field somewhere (probably wearing a stupid old-timey hat). I...
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'Queen & Country' (2014) directed by John Boorman [LFF 2014]
"Realising you’re about to watch a new movie by the director of Point Blank, Deliverance and Zardoz is an odd experience. In his 81st year, we find John Boorman in a reflective mood, gazing into his...
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'A retrospective exhibition of Agathe Sorel' at the Studio of Contemporary...
Agathe Sorel's sculptures look like they've been carved out of space itself. Headache inducing geometry meets diagrammatic precision in transparent perspex, a collection of objects that slide into new...
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'The Keeping Room' (2014) directed by Daniel Barber [LFF 2014]
"The Keeping Room is ‘past-apocalyptic’ cinema. We like to imagine the end of the world coming with nuclear war, asteroid collision or alien invasion. Here, however, we see it as history, a terrifying...
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'Electricity' (2014) directed by Bryn Higgins [LFF 2014]
"I’ve never had a fit, and to be honest, it’s not high on my list of things to do. But after watching Bryn Higgins’ Electricity, I feel like I’ve got an inkling of how horrible it is. This tightly...
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'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day' (2014) directed...
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad movie more like. When I'm watching films I usually make scrawled notes as a way to...
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'The Book of Life' (2014) directed by Jorge Gutierrez
"Any children’s film that opens with a Le Tigre song and contains a sad matador singing Radiohead is basically alright by me. Death is ‘in’ at the moment in children’s animation, with The Book of Life...
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'Swines' at 47/49 Tanner Street, 16th October 2014
Every time I go to a show with unassigned seating I do my level best to sit in the middle of the front row. You don't have to deal with gigantic hairdos blocking the action, you get to stretch your...
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'The Hotel' at 47/49 Tanner Street, 16th October 2014
I love immersive theatre. It grants you agency within a dramatic world, allowing you to manipulate fiction, as well as letting stage designers run wild and create a new reality. From Punchdrunk's...
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'A Blast' (2014) directed by Syllas Tzoumerkas [LFF 2014]
Syllas Tzoumerkas’ A Blast tracks the fallout of the Greek economic collapse on an average middle class family. Or at least I think it does. You see, A Blast has been shoved through a wood chipper and...
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'Kill Me Three Times' (2014) directed by Kriv Stenders
Even now, after Simon Pegg has conclusively 'made it', the sight of him on the big screen feels a bit mischievous. For many he'll always be Tim from Spaced, the sight of him conjuring up happy memories...
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'The Face of an Angel' (2014) directed by Michael Winterbottom [LFF 2014]
The Face of an Angel sets its sights on the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, still an open wound in the public consciousness. We instinctively crave digestible narratives of heroes, villains and...
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'A Hard Day' (2014) directed by Seong-hoon Kim [LFF 2014]
A homicide detective is having a very bad day. Internal affairs are ransacking his desk, his daughter is demanding chocolate cake, he’s been pulled over for a DUI and he’s got a body stashed in his...
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'Fury' (2014) directed by David Ayer [LFF 2014]
I should hate a film where a rough n' tumble gang of American soldiers mow down a faceless horde of baddies. But Fury's baddies are Nazis - fuck those guys. Nazis stand alongside zombies and killer...
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'The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom' (2014) directed by Jacob Cheung...
Within the first ten minutes of The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom, you realize that you’re going to have to seriously recalibrate your cheese tolerance levels. An adaptation of a Chinese novel,...
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'Parallel I-IV' (2014) directed by Harun Farocki [LFF 2014]
It'd be a shame if the London Film Festival were entirely pretty actors in expensive clothes prancing around on a drizzly Leicester Square red carpet. Sometimes you want to dig a little deeper. That's...
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