I’m what’s left of Rob Johnson. Writer for High on Films, TotalNTertainment and Robscene. Film Studies teacher in Doncaster.
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Caddo Lake 2024
I’m all for a slow build, and I’m all for layered, labyrinthine plots that don’t fall into place until the resolution, but Caddo Lake goes beyond tension building and complex plotting into plain old confusing tedium. I must confess that I don’t get the hype on this one…
Caddo Lake presents us with two protagonists. Dylan O’Brien’s mumbling, troubled lake dredger and Eliza Scanlen’s constantly bewildered Ellie. Elsewhere, Caroline Falk is our missing Maguffin girl and Lauren Ambrose delivers the…
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The Amityville Horror 1979
On the 13th of November, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his parents and his four younger siblings at their home in Long Island, New York. For reasons that are not entirely clear, this tragic and admittedly alluring tale of murder has led to 59 films (and counting) that feature the word ‘Amityville’ in the title (highlights include Amityville Emanuelle, Amityville Death Toilet and Amityville Bigfoot). This all started with the publishing of Jay Anson’s book The Amityville Horror in 1977…
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Nickel Boys 2024
Hollywood loves a gimmick. Whether that be a film shot in one continuous take (Boiling Point, Victoria) or films shot over several years (Boyhood), the list goes on. With RaMell Ross’s recently Oscar-nominated film Nickel Boys, the gimmick is that everything is shot in POV (yes, like Peep Show). The problem is that the story is so good that it didn’t need a gimmick in the first place…
Fate and circumstance throw Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson) together…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
While I adored Bob Dylan growing up, I rarely return to his music now. I think that people often start with the greats, but then they move on to stuff that is perhaps more relevant to their own time period. And so it is with Dylan and me. There is also the thorny issue of whether he is someone who deserves our admiration or not. He is famously grumpy, butchers his own songs when playing live and gives deliberately obtuse…
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