“Now you’re just showing off.” Now, Bruce? Not when he built you a sonar system that used every mobile phone in Gotham or organised for you to be lifted out of a Hong Kong skyscraper directly into a plane? Jesus.
The omnitalented Ben Drew (aka Plan B) adds directing and screenwriting to his CV with a searing debut set in the crime-ridden streets where he grew up. As insightful as Kidulthood, as brutal as Harry Brown and as intrinsically moral as one of Aesop’s Fables, this East End thrillride is the real deal.
Don’t you just hate it when zombies eat your imaginary husband?
The 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival runs from 20 June to 1 July 2012, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to see the opening night film KILLER JOE, ahead of its UK release, to give away!
If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled…
Think you’ve seen whimsy? Man, you do not know whimsy until you’ve seen The Soul Of Flies, a no-budget crowd pleaser which seeks not only to whimsy your pants off, but to convince you life is one long crazy road trip full of wonder and enchantment, and not basically rubbish – until the film ends and you suddenly remember that it is.
This sounds Glucking good! …we’ll show ourselves out.
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