The Fungi Film Festival (FFF) doesn’t make sense. First of all, it’s not really a festival. With an overall length of two hours and fifteen minutes, watching everything on offer this year won’t take you much longer than an average movie at the cinema. The short films are an aggregate of disparate styles and genres, […]
Prehistoric Planet Review
Almost a century ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle showed The Lost World (1925), a film filled with prehistoric creatures, to a meeting of the Society of American Magicians, and impishly refused to disclose the origin of the film. Willis H. O’Brien’s stop-motion dinosaurs were impressive enough to convince at least some of the audience that […]
London Film Festival 2015: Anomalisa
Standing in the queue for the London Film Festival’s mysterious secret screening, all the talk was unsurprisingly concerned with what lay ahead on the mammoth screen at the Odeon in Leicester Square. Packed together like cattle, there were murmurs of The Hateful Eight or, perhaps most widely suspected, The Danish Girl. But of course you can’t second guess the […]
