A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
David Karlak, “The Candidate” (2010) Entirely driven by character and dialogue, this interesting character study of a corporate middle manager, ambitious and not a little sociopathic…
French and French-language Films, Japanese Films
Hirokazu Kore-eda, “The Truth” (2019) Ironically truth is the one thing going missing in this gentle French comedy about a family whose members use lies and…
French and French-language Films
Thierry Lorenzi, “On / Off” (2013) This short space-exploration thriller film had been doing the film festival circuit for a number of years before DUST channel…
Anthony Ferraro, “Aeranger” (2019) A twelve-minute film about an alien crash-landing somewhere in North America thousands of years ago when mammoths were still roaming the continent…
Dear USE readers and visitors, Where did 2019 go to? The year just seems to have whooshed by and already I am writing another round-up review…
Ryan Turner, “A Date in 2025” (2017) Goofy teenage romantic comedy about a socially awkward and self-conscious young man meets insidious panopticon nanny-state, courtesy of artificial…
Aly Migliori, “After Her” (2018) A young man, Callum (Christopher Dylan White), goes in search of a young woman, Hayley (Natalia Dyer), five years after she…
Michael Mathews, “Apocalypse Now Now” (2017) Made as a proof-of-concept film on which a television series or a feature film will be based, “Apocalypse Now Now”…
British Films, North American Films
Daniel Prince, “Invaders” (2018) Playing as a homage and parody of the 1980s film “Batteries Not Included” in which a bunch of tiny extraterrestrial cyborg spaceships…
Ken Loach, “Sorry We Missed You” (2019) He may be well into his 80s but Ken Loach continues to make social realist film dramas that document…