2020s
Some films leave you turning them over for days, not because they soared but because you can see the far better version hovering just out of reach. Sacred Creatures is one of those. Frieda Luk's debut feature, a Canadian and Italian co-production that premiered in competition at
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Thom Lunshof's First Zone, a Dutch post-apocalyptic drama premiering In Competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Beautifully shot and scored with a strong lead, but a world left frustratingly unexplained.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
I came to The Mad World of Harvey Kurtzman knowing almost nothing about the man, and not a great deal more about the magazine that made him. MAD is one of those American institutions that only ever reached these shores second-hand, through references in other things, the gap-toothed
Thom Lunshof
First Zone was one of the films I was most curious about at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, and it did not disappoint. Thom Lunshof's debut feature imagines the Netherlands almost entirely underwater, a drowned country crossed by boat by a lone woman in search
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