Posts By Josh Slater-Williams
Interview: Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber on Blumhouse’s CAM and being sex-work positive
November 17, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsA multiple prize-winner at this year’s prestigious Fantasia Festival, the Blumhouse-produced Cam, now available on Netflix UK, is one of 2018’s most interesting horror films for numerous reasons.
First of all, the film, set in the world of webcam shows, … Read More
Interview: Samantha Robinson on Netflix’s CAM, The Love Witch, social media, and Paris, Texas
November 16, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsSet in the world of a specific type of sex work, Netflix’s Blumhouse-produced horror CAM offers plenty of food for thought alongside its unsettling thrills. Written by former camgirl Isa Mazzei and directed by Daniel Goldhaber, the film sees a … Read More
Interview: Adina Pintilie, Tómas Lemarquis and Laura Benson talk MUBI’s Touch Me Not
November 7, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsAn unexpected winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not is an eye-opening look at human sexuality and intimacy that’s not quite documentary, not quite fiction in … Read More
VOD film review: Mandy
October 29, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsIf you get on its phantasmagorical wavelength, Mandy has such sights (and sounds) to show you.Read More
VOD film review: The Dark
October 22, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsThe Dark is an admirably unique spin on the undead that doesn’t quite overcome its structural issues.Read More
Interview: Aaron Katz on Gemini, LA, noir, and Bad Influence(s)
September 13, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsA few years on from his mystery comedy Cold Weather, affectionately dubbed ‘mumblenoir’ by some, writer-director Aaron Katz returns to the narrative territory of a non-detective investigating a crime. And this one’s set in Los Angeles, the home of film … Read More
Interview: Mark Cousins on The Eyes of Orson Welles, documentaries and Netflix
August 17, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsDirector, critic and curator Mark Cousins returns with essay feature The Eyes of Orson Welles, a documentary, divided into five chapters, that explores the legendary filmmaker through a subject that’s rarely come up in the multiple existing biographical portraits of … Read More
VOD film review: Terminal
August 12, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsA hyper-stylised Frankenstein’s monster of a movie, with dead tropes resurrected for a lifeless and tacky tale.Read More
Interview: Xavier Giannoli talks MUBI’s The Apparition
August 3, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsFrom the director of Marguerite and The Singer, The Apparition is a French drama concerning a journalist (Vincent Lindon) being hired by the Vatican to assist with a canonical investigation into a young woman (Galatéa Bellugi) in a small French … Read More
VOD film review: The Apparition
August 3, 2018 | Josh Slater-WilliamsThis investigative drama concerning religion has plenty of details to believe in, but little to inspire devotion.Read More