By - Gareth Jones For fans of Finnish cinema, black and white boxing movies, everyday man stories I swear I am not only watching boxing movies.  My last review was of the 1972 classic Fat City, and somehow when I logged onto MUBI, I stumbled across this Finnish film from 2016.  The image used for promotion was of Olli and his girlfriend, future wife Raija joyfully laughing and frozen in […]

By - Gareth Jones For fans of John Huston, Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, boxing movies, John Steinbeck-like stories The New American Cinema movement in the late sixties and early seventies was not just for the new crop of American directors like Martin Scorcese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Peter Bogdonovich.  Indeed, several Hollywood veterans were also able to create in new and exciting ways, often reinvigorating their career.  This is certainly […]

By - Gareth Jones For fans of Irish folk horror, Steve Oram, modest films that pack a punch, Hereditary Coming out five years after Ben Wheatley’s folk horror revival Kill List, Liam Gavin’s A Dark Song also predated Ari Aster’s folk horror masterpiece Hereditary.  Both A Dark Song and Hereditary use the folk horror genre as a way of addressing grief and mourning.  That is one of the wonderful aspects […]