I was very impressed with Chris Baugh’s Boys From County Hell, a horror-comedy that takes the form and digs deeper than you may expect. Balancing arterial spray with nuanced portrayals of grief and regret, don’t miss this.
Somehow, miraculously, EMPIRE Magazine let me write about the film for them, so do me a solid and check out my full review here -> https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/boys-from-county-hell/
So, err, this review over at Empire Magazine may be worth checking out. No particular reason...
Nah, screw it! I GOT PUBLISHED BY EMPIRE! I GOT PUBLISHED BY EMPIRE! This is very much a dream come true for me. If I never write again, or if I go on to do more with them, this will still be the absolute best feeling I’ve ever had as a film journalist. I feel like I should do an acceptance speech haha 😂 this is just WILD!
I just watched Andrew Dominik’s beautiful Nick Cave and Warren Ellis doc This Much I Know To Be True in the cinema with Matilda, and I danced and sang to Balcony Man with her in an otherwise empty screen. Now, I’m really not a spiritual person by any means, but I would be lying if I said that I didn’t feel my lost little one was somehow there with us, infinite and immortal, floating under the bulblight. Once again I’m…
John Mulaney: Brush your teeth. Now boom, orange juice. That's life.
The notch on John Mulaney’s stylised delivery just about cranks to irritating moreso than idiosyncratic here, but the stories themselves remain impeccably written and the punchlines delivered with gleeful precision. Sometimes Mulaney’s cadence and intonation here made me think of Christopher Walken, and once I thought of that once I could not shake it for the rest of this rewatch.
James Bond: We have all the time in the world.
FULL REVIEW HERE.
No Time To Die is a beautiful swansong for Daniel Craig’s James Bond, a film that really does feel like the culmination of all that came before it. Boasting the style and swagger of Casino Royale (which is nodded to in the obligatory pre-credit chase thanks to a heavily dialled up parkour segment - now with added bikes), the brutal viscera of QoS (there’s some phenomenal sound…
