Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

1 week ago | awfj.org | Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

0 Flares 0 Flares × In 2018, Irish filmmaker Aislinn Clarke bucked the lengthy trend that has rendered women-directed found footage horror films almost non-existent, employing the genre-specific mockumentary trope to tell a chilling supernatural tale with its roots very much in the real world.

4 weeks ago | awfj.org | Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

0 Flares 0 Flares × Working in a public library is by far the strangest job I have ever had. From the odd ducks drawn to work in the sector who run the gamut from eccentric to freak, right through to the seemingly endless parade of patrons with no limits to their peculiarities, public libraries draw these people like a moth to a flame.

1 month ago | awfj.org | Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

0 Flares 0 Flares × As much as Cannibal Mukbang is based on the fairly self-explanatory premise “What if mukbang – but cannibal?”, on the surface the film is the bona fide b-grade delight it clearly sets out to be. Where it is less successful, however, is when this novel yet slight premise stops being enough to carry a feature length film, and the whole thing takes a perhaps not-as-well-thought-out-as-it-should-be turn towards rape-revenge territory.

2 months ago | awfj.org | Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

0 Flares 0 Flares × Ever since he came thundering into the popular imagination in Merchant Ivory’s 1985 award-season darling A Room With a View, Julian Sands quickly established himself as one of the most versatile screen actors of his generation. As comfortable in expensive mainstream Hollywood fare as he was in low-budget genre movies and what used to be vaguely defined as “arthouse”, Sands was at home on the screen in all his many guises.

2 months ago | awfj.org | Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

0 Flares 0 Flares × The Weird Girl Wave is alive and kicking – long live the weird girls! From Alice Lowe’s Timestalker to the films of Amanda Kramer to Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker to Mary Dauterman’s Booger, Grace Glowicki – who also starred in the latter – returns with Dead Lover, her sophomore directorial feature that is both wholly unique and yet finds itself very much at home amongst her strange, beautiful sisters.