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  • Restless

    ★★★★

  • The Severed Sun

    ★★½

  • The Draw

    ★★½

  • A New Kind of Wilderness

    ★★★★½

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  • Restless

    Restless

    ★★★★

    Valid crashout.

  • The Severed Sun

    The Severed Sun

    ★★½

    This film had some really cool moments, I thought the score was really really good, you don’t always find that sort of dark experimental synth music in the folk horror genre but it worked very well with the imagery. The cinematography was great, some very interesting shots, colour was captured beautifully, and they pulled off some very impressive FX considering the low budget. The still shots of the lead actress walking through the forest were gorgeous, like a painting. 

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  • The Draw

    The Draw

    ★★½

    The Draw is commendable as a directorial debut, and impressive considering a modest indie budget, but I have to say I was quite underwhelmed. This film feels like taking the plot of a black mirror episode (think Hang the DJ or Arkangel), stretching it out into a feature length film, and making the plot way more convoluted than necessary. The reason the black mirror concepts hit home is because they focus on one small element of a technological advancement, allowing…

  • Last Swim

    Last Swim

    ★★★★½

    This was really good. Last Swim managed to perfectly capture that strange transitory period of one’s youth, where no one quite knows what life holds next, and no one acknowledges that the times you spend then will become some of your fondest memories. Made me nostalgic for my own days of drifting about London with friends, in many of the same locations depicted in the film. The geographical uniqueness of life in London as a teenager is reflected very well…