Showing posts with label Bruce McDonald. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bruce McDonald. Show all posts

Monday, 5 April 2021

The Tracey Fragments (2007)



 

15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog.

Experimental psycho-drama may irritate with its splitscreen and multi-fractured narrative, but fascinates with its audacity and Page's excellent performance. 


 


 

 

Sunday, 14 February 2021

Pontypool (2008)



 

A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in. 

A welcome original take on the zombie genre works quite well as a one-room drama with incoming (and outgoing) radio messages, but is muddled by a irritatingly ambiguous main character and a silly 'linguistic' explanation for the doomsday virus.