Posts By Anton Bitel
VOD film review: Burning (2018)
January 8, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Lee Chang-dong’s masterful pantomime thriller explores treacherously ambiguous borderlands of class and gender.Read More
VOD film review: In the Line of Duty
January 3, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Fast-paced but forgettable, Steven C. Miller’s cop action comedy lets an ageing cowboy loose in the internet age.Read More
Long Day’s Journey Into Night: A mesmerising trip down memory lane
December 27, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Bi Gan’s noir-inflected trip down memory lane brings more Kaili blues while putting the viewer in the mood for love.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Last Ones Out (2015)
December 6, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Director: Howard James Fyvie Cast: Greg Kriek, Christia Visser, Tshamano Sebe, Vukile Zuma Certificate: TBC Watch Last Ones Out online in the UK: Shudder UK
The feature debut of writer/director Howard James Fyvie is set not in his native South … Read More
Shudder UK film review: Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
November 15, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Brad Anderson plays off cinema’s light and shadow for existential, apocalyptic horror.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Woodshock (2017)
October 25, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Kate and LauraMulleavy’s feature debut is a gnarled portrait of trauma, guilt and loss.Read More
Dolemite Is My Name: Infectiously fun
October 19, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Craig Brewer’s infectiously fun making-of meta-movie shows brothers (and one sister) doing it for themselves in Seventies America. Read More
Interview: Bertrand Bonello talks Zombi Child, horror and streaming
October 18, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Writer/director/producer/composer Bertrand Bonello is best known on these shores for The Pornographer (2001), Tiresia (2003), House of Tolerance (2011) and Nocturama (2016) – films that often deploy a certain icy distance as an alienation effect, which stimulates viewers to fill … Read More
VOD film review: Escape from Tomorrow
October 11, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Randy Moore’s psychodrama sneaks monochrome midlife malaise into Disney’s fantasy kingdom.Read More
MUBI UK film review: Zombi Child
October 6, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Bertrand Bonello’s latest is a multi-layered view of colonialism’s legacy, resurrected in every new generation.Read More
