Blu-Ray Review: Cruising
Following the masterful 40th anniversary Blu-Ray restoration of his lost classic Sorcerer in 2017, it’s now the turn of director William Friedkin’s even more unjustly forgotten 1980 thriller Cruising to get the Blu-Ray treatment. The film was adapted from Gerald Walker’s 1970 novel of the same name and also drew inspiration from a real-life series …
Film Review: The Hummingbird Project
With The Hummingbird Project, Canadian writer-director Kim Nguyen has created possibly the first stock market fraud thriller to be set predominantly in a rural environment. Nguyen, who was previously nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for War Witch, assembles a relatively prestigious cast for a low-budget film of this nature, including Jesse Eisenberg, …
See: Bodywash Tease New Video Ahead of Debut Album
Montreal dream pop quintet Bodywash premiered the haunting video for their new single, ‘With Heat’, ahead of the release of their debut album ‘Comforter’ on August 30th via Luminelle Recordings. The fuzz guitar-dominated song apparently deals with the feeling of being unable to escape something toxic. You can check it out here. No details of …
News: Sean Cronin’s Very Good Issue ‘Ghost Warning’ Prior to ‘Adulthood’
Brooklyn Americana eight-piece Very Good, the brainchild of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sean Cronin, have announced their third album, ‘Adulthood’, will be released on October 11th. ‘Adulthood’ is the group’s follow-up to 2014’s simultaneous releases ‘!’ and ‘?’ and was teased by the release of lead single ‘Ghost Warning’ earlier this month, which you can check …
News: Djunah Release Single, Announce Album
Chicago noise punk duo Djunah released a new single, ‘Animal Kingdom’ (below), on August 21st, and have announced the release of their Kurt Ballou-produced debut album, ‘Ex Voto’, via Triple Eye Industries on November 1st. The band also opened for Ballou’s metalcore band, Converge, and Ohio indie rockers Cloud Nothings at Chicago’s House of Vans …
Album Review: MNNQNS – Body Negativity
Hailing from Rouen, France, post-punk quartet MNNQNS are following up their critically acclaimed debut EP ‘Advertisement’ with their first full-length album, ‘Body Negativity’. The band claim to “hate rock ‘n’ roll” and be influenced by artists as wide-ranging as Deerhunter, Death Grips, and the Beach Boys, along with various bands on the Cardiff music scene …
Interview: Jessica Hynes (The Fight)
The Fight is Spaced star Jessica Hynes’ debut as writer, director, and actor. She plays Tina, a 40-year-old boxfit enthusiast who convinces a local boxing instructor (Cathy Tyson) to train her as a fighter after her parents’ (Christopher Fairbank and Anita Dobson) marriage starts to collapse and her daughter (Sennia Nanua) has to contend with …
DVD Review: The Fight
Films about boxers overcoming adversity are a long and noble tradition within cinema, but the protagonists of such films are, with very few exceptions, men. Spaced star Jessica Hynes is seeking to correct that lack of representation with The Fight, her debut as an actor-writer-director. The film is set in present-day Folkestone and centres on …
Interview: Cédric Le Gallo and Romain Brau (The Shiny Shrimps)
Having experienced commercial and critical success in its native France, The Shiny Shrimps, a comedy about an ostensibly homophobic competitive swimmer nearing the end of his professional career who is ordered to train an incompetent LGBTQ+ water polo team as punishment for a public indiscretion, opens in the UK this weekend. I caught up with …
Film Review: The Shiny Shrimps
The Shiny Shrimps is co-written and co-directed by Cédric Le Gallo, making his feature debut here, and Maxime Govare, previously known for the comedies I Kissed a Girl (2015) and Daddy Cool (2017). The film is about a curmudgeonly, humourless, 33-year-old Olympic swimmer, Matthias Le Goff (Nicolas Gob), who is coming to the end of …