Martin Amis

The Zone of Interest (12): A Hum-Drum Life Alongside Horror? It’s Still Hum-Drum.

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A gardener pushes a wheelbarrow along the garden path with the buildings of Auschwitz beyond the walls.

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Zone of Interest” (2024). A 12-certificate film about the Holocaust that shows none of the horror? That was highly intriguing to me going into this new one from Jonathan Glazer. Does the film have a powerful message?: definitely yes. Is it an interesting film to watch?: Hmm, … Read more

Out of Blue (15): Strangely Unsettling Murder Mystery from Carol Morley.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “Out of Blue” (2018). My thanks to my #flickeringdreams colleague the Reverend Andy Godfrey for putting me onto this one. He saw “Out of Blue” at a BFI retrospective season of the work of director Carol Morley and likened it to the recent “To Catch a Killer” that I … Read more