Articles by Michelle Devereaux

Bright Young Things Stephen Fry 3

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Eternally quotable raconteur, aesthete and "first modern man" Oscar Wilde once remarked, "Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous bo...

Bright Future Kiyoshi Kurosawa

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Acclaimed genre director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies are typically rather "un-Japanese" affirmations of the soundness of irrationality, and h...

Spun

Jonas Akerlund

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Addicts call it cotton fever: a blood infection caused by injecting drugs laced with bacteria-contaminated cotton fibres. The side effects...

Jeffrey Porter

Jeffrey Porter

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"Are you 2B, or not?" the menacing young cowboy threatens a bewildered Jones Dillon (Elijah Wood) on his first day living on his own, after...

Barbara Willis Sweete

Barbara Willis Sweete

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Perfect Pie belongs to the camp of small Canadian movies that are so unabashedly, humourlessly earnest, and so Canadian in their earnestnes...

Larry Clark and Ed Lachman

Larry Clark and Ed Lachman

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Ken Park is to movies what tighty-whities are to underwear. It's unattractive, cheap and could possibly prevent you from ever having childr...

Lynne Ramsay

Lynne Ramsay

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Someone really ought to abduct Samantha Morton, shrink her down, and permanently adhere her to the celluloid of a Mike Leigh film. With her...

Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Is there really anything cooler than Nick Nolte walking along the banks of the Seine river after a night of bar-hopping and fighting, sucki...