film festivals Archives - Desperate Living

A film lover’s arguments against the dubious pleasures of the movie-going experience.

The dubious rewards that come from screenwriting competitions and the ‘expert’ readers employed to examine your work.

The new film from the maker of The Woman with Leopard Shoes looks to be an intense, paranoid horror thriller.

Looking back at the much-loved British horror film director and his remarkable body of work.

Karyn Kusama’s plodding paranoid religious cult thriller is an example of more being decidedly less.