Posts By Anton Bitel
VOD film review: Come True
March 15, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Anthony Scott Burns’ beautiful, disturbing, oneiric enigma occupies a liminal space on the edge of sleep.Read More
VOD film review: The Columnist
March 12, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Ivo van Aart’s serial killer satire is a darkly comic post-feminist revenge pic.Read More
Glasgow Film Festival review: Out of the World
March 7, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Marc Fouchard’s synaesthetic psychodrama offers a heady mix of musicality, mania, misogyny, murder and mood.Read More
Glasgow Film Festival review: American Badger (aka The Badger)
March 6, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Kirk Caouette’s hitman movie is at once an action extravaganza and moody existential noir.Read More
Netflix UK film review: The Old Ways
March 5, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Christopher Alender’s layered horror uses the tropes of exorcism to stage cross-border, cross-cultural clashes.Read More
VOD film review: The Stylist
March 1, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Jill Gevargizian’s superlative psychodrama marries a deranged stylist to her client in a messy union.Read More
VOD film review: Benny Loves You
February 15, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Karl Holt’s feature debut finds a hilariously playful side to a man-child’s darker impulses. Read More
VOD film review: Willy’s Wonderland (2021)
February 9, 2021 | Anton Bitel
This lurid inverted slasher delivers on expectations with an unhinged glee.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Queen of Black Magic (Ratu Ilmu Hitam)
January 29, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Kimo Stamboel’s slow-build ghost story allegorises a generation struggling to extricate itself from the past.Read More
VOD film review: Hosts (2020)
January 18, 2021 | Anton Bitel
This cruel Christmas cracker stuffed with sci-fi and apocalyptic ultraviolence will haunt you long after its end credits.Read More
