Just a quick one for you this week.
I've been lucky enough to be poolside during this heatwave we've been experiencing in the UK but the sweltering heat can do strange things to people, especially if you're stranded in a town in the Australian outback undertaking unruly levels of beer consumption. This is the setting for Ted Kotcheff's sweaty and dystopian cult classic WAKE IN FRIGHT.
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have a dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
Summertime in late seventies Paris is the setting for this week’s Friday Night Film pick KNIFE + HEART, Yann Gonzalez’s heavily stylized, giallo-inspired queer thriller.
The Hong Kong Film Awards returns this Sunday with its 40th edition and with the impact of the global pandemic hitting Hong Kong harder than most, it’s the first in-person version of the event since 2019. This week’s Friday Night Film pick is one of those leading the race for honors in Jun Li’s bleak drama DRIFTING. Nominated for 11 awards, the film is considered one of the frontrunners for Best Film along with Soi Cheang’s crime thriller Limbo, which…