Tag Archives: Michael Smiley

Review in Brief: The Toll (2021)

Posted on September 14, 2021 by Sam S-P

You don’t get a Welsh gangster film every day, but THE TOLL makes you feel that’s a damn shame. It’s low-key stylish and non-linear, like PULP FICTION if it wasn’t as pleased with itself, with a rich seam of gallows … Continue reading →

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A Field in England (2013) Review

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Sam S-P

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/a-field-in-england-benwheatley-movie-review/ SSP

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Review: Free Fire (2016/17)

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Sam S-P

Does Ben Wheatley ever sleep? Over the past eight years the British polymath has produced kitchen sink drama, folk horror, black comedy, Avant-garde, period-sci-fi-satire and DOCTOR WHO. He never does the same project twice and tends to mix it up … Continue reading →

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Review: The Lobster (2015)

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Sam S-P

Well file this one comfortably (or uncomfortably) under “flawed but fascinating”. THE LOBSTER is a symphony to loneliness, an essay to alienation. It constructs a bizarre and jarring world inhabited by the miserable and the hollow, then asks you to … Continue reading →

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Review: A Field in England (2013)

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Sam S-P

Ben Wheatley is a talent, there’s no doubt about that. His uncompromising, exciting and undeniably weird directorial style marks him out as one of the most talented and provocative British filmmakers working today. He’s worked in several genres – DOWN TERRACE was … Continue reading →

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