Posts By Josh Slater-Williams
VOD film review: Bloodshot
March 27, 2020 | Josh Slater-Williams
Hankering for a mid-budget 1990s superhero throwback? Bloodshot is definitely a film that exists.Read More
VOD review: Midnight Family
February 21, 2020 | Josh Slater-Williams
A gripping portrait of a thoroughly messed up healthcare system, Midnight Family is a timely must-see.Read More
VOD film review: First Love
February 16, 2020 | Josh Slater-Williams
It sputters out towards the end, but this fatalistic cartoon is one of Takashi Miike’s most fun films to date.Read More
Interview: Kantemir Balagov talks Beanpole
October 20, 2019 | Josh Slater-Williams
Warning: The following paragraphs contain spoilers for the opening 20 minutes of Beanpole, which contain a sequence with harrowing content.
Beanpole, the extraordinary sophomore feature of writer-director Kantemir Balagov, earned the young filmmaker the Best Director prize in Un Certain … Read More
VOD film review: Tolkien
September 15, 2019 | Josh Slater-Williams
The charms of Nicholas Hoult as Tolkien cannot save this all too expected journey.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre: Volume 1
September 15, 2019 | Josh Slater-Williams
A promising sign of things to come from the emerging Studio Ponoc.Read More
Interview: Ali Abbasi on bringing Border to the screen
July 12, 2019 | Josh Slater-Williams
Winner of the Un Certain Regard award at last year’s Cannes, and an Oscar nominee for Makeup and Hairstyling, Ali Abbasi’s Border arrives on MUBI UK as a landmark title (read our review here). Aside from streaming on the subscription … Read More
UK TV review: American Gods Season 2 (spoilers)
May 19, 2019 | Josh Slater-Williams
Taken as a whole, the second season of American Gods barely rewards the patience of the faithful.Read More
Interview: Joe Penna on Arctic, Mads Mikkelsen, polar bears and YouTube
May 11, 2019 | Josh Slater-Williams
Arctic is a survival thriller in which Mads Mikkelsen plays a man stranded in the Arctic Circle waiting for rescue, only for a helicopter that finds him to crash, killing the pilot and forcing Mikkelsen’s character to have to tend … Read More
First look review: American Gods Season 2
March 11, 2019 | Josh Slater-Williams
One of TV’s strangest shows becomes a more generic, less compelling affair, after a behind-the-scenes shake-up.Read More
