Handheld horror: Danny & Michael Philippou's TALK TO ME (2022) "mediates adolescent angst and alienation through a terrifying rite of passage." Screens 9pm tonight at #PicturehouseCentral #SundanceLondon. Full review for #SciFiNow
https://www.scifinow.co.uk/cinema/talk-to-me-review-one-hell-of-a-strong-calling-card/

Day 4, SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival:

3.30pm #ThePrinceCharlesCinema: Johnny Barnard's WINTERTIDE

6.15pm #ThePrinceCharlesCinema: Raúl Cerezo & Fernando Gonzalez Gomez's THE ELDERLY

9pm #PicturehouseCentral: (my festival pick) Søren Peter Langkjær Bojsen's THE GREAT GLITCH/CHILDREN OF PARADISE

Capsules for #SciFiNow
https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/freak-infestations-strange-elders-and-diseased-strays-in-day-four-of-sci-fi-london

Day 3, SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival:
Keith John Adams' OZMA, 5.45pm #ThePrinceCharlesCinema

Serpil Altın's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE FUTURE: 2121, 8.30pm #PicturehouseCentral

Janet Grillo's THE WARM SEASON, 8.30pm #TheGardenCinema

Capsules for SciFiNow
https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/sci-fi-london-day-three-future-set-fairytale-a-shape-shifting-jellyfish-and-aliens/

“We foil-hatted freaks stick together”, says the heroine of Victor Danell’s 'good-natured retro adventure' UFO SWEDEN (2022) which opens #SciFiLondon , 7pm tonight at #PicturehouseCentral.
Day one of coverage for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/inner-and-outer-spaces-sci-fi-london-day-one

"plays out its genre tropes to dizzying perfection, while also addressing the inequalities and traumas which women both face and hand down in Korean society": mesmerising psychological thriller THE ANCHOR will screen 6.30pm tomorrow (15 Nov), followed immediately by a Q&A with writer/director Jeong Ji-yeon, all at #PicturehouseCentral for the #LondonKoreanFilmFestival https://www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/lkff-2022-the-anchor-qa

"...Kim Min-geun’s sophisticated second-chance romance foregrounds the contribution of a location scout’s work to a film. Agreeably self-reflexive and unusually understated in its melodrama, this locates nostalgia, situation and memory at the centre of cinema, and inevitably comes with a strong sense of place."
I'll be introducing DIRECTOR'S INTENTION 6pm tomorrow (14 Nov) at #PicturehouseCentral for the #LondonKoreanFilmFestival
#Metacinema #LocationScout #KoreanCinema
https://www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/lkff-2022-directors-intention

How to pursue high ideals in an era of vicious autocracy?: I'll be introducing Byun Sung-hyun's intriguing 'spin' on Machiavellian politicking under Park Chung-hee's dictatorship KINGMAKER, 6pm today at #PicturehouseCentral for the #LondonKoreanFilmFestival https://www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/lkff-2022-kingmaker/