October 22, 2016 2016, comedy, drama, failed critics, film, film festival, foreign language, gangster, horror, indie, micro budget, political, review, romantic, world cinema canada, godspeed, hello destroyer, in a valley of violence, moonlight, paterson, under the shadow, vancouver, vancouver international film festival, viff, weirdos Leave a comment

Vancouver International Film Festival 2016

by Nick Lay

A round up of seven of the more intriguing pictures from VIFF 2016, including Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson and Ti West’s In a Valley of Violence… Continue reading →

July 1, 2015 british, contemporary, failed critics, film, future, indie, micro budget, podcast, political, review, sci-fi, social, thriller british, failed critics, indie, lewis saunderson, oscar swift, podcast, sci-fi, thriller, through the lens Leave a comment

Guest Podcast Debut With Failed Critics!

by Nick Lay

Following my articles on Blackadder, We Are Many, and Kung Fury for the chaps from my homeland at Failed Critics, you can now listen to me chat shit for fifteen minutes in my transatlantic podcast debut!

Owen Hughes hosts as he and I discuss Oscar Swift’s micro budget British indie thriller, Through the Lens, starring Lewis Sanderson.

The FC lads also discuss Minions, Spider-Man, and The Terminator amongst others.

Check it out here!

For a more interactive experience, listen on acast.

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May 25, 2015 action, animation, anime, cult classic, fantasy, film, horror, japan, manga, martial arts, political, retrospect, supernatural, thriller, turning japanese, world cinema action, anime, cult classic, film, ILT, Japan, manga, Ninja Scroll, Yoshiaki Kawajiri Leave a comment

TurningJapanese#2: Ninja Scroll 獣兵衛忍風帖

by Nick Lay

ILT’s TurningJapanese# series returns with its first anime retrospect, a bonafide cult classic of the genre that all but made me lose my shit as a teenage fanboy…

Ninja Scroll
Dir: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Original Release Date: 5 June 1993

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May 19, 2015 british, contemporary, documentary, failed critics, film, political, review, social, war 1 Comment

Review: We Are Many

by Nick Lay

Focusing on the build up to, and protest of the Iraq War, Amir Arimani’s moving, thoroughly engaging documentary is a definitive journey through one of the chief high-profile social and political chapters of the early 21st century.