The Ghostliness of Mark Jenkin’s Post-Brexit Parable, ‘Bait’
Mark Jenkin's haunting Bait exhibits a ghostliness that complements the film's transient landscape of seasonal capital and short-term holiday lets.
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Subverting the Romcom: Mercedes Grower on Creating ‘Brakes’
Brakes plunges straight into the brutal and absurd endings of the relationships of nine couples before travelling back in time to discover the moments of those first sparks of love.
Family Flavours in Mike Leigh’s ‘Life is Sweet’
Family, friends, and food form the focus of Leigh’s broad but funny, relatable and affectionate 1990 film, which here receives a welcome Blu-ray and DVD re-release from BFI.
Bloody Good Terror the English Way: ‘The Quatermass Xperiment’ and ‘Burn Witch Burn’
Brian Donleavy shouts and Peter Wyngarde wears pyjamas in these two British horror classics.
Trembling in the Web of ‘Robinson in Ruins’
Robinson in Ruins is a world of grass verges on the edges of motorways, the margins of towns, and the unsettled and unsettling spaces in semi-derelict conditions.