Recent content by Maleno

"This is a story about a new strain of an old oppression, a fresh alienation from a long-standing social order" - Ian Maleney on Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake Read the whole post here.

'A boozy, sweaty, violent, side-burned mess of a film' - Ian Maleney on High Rise Read more...

'quality sludge from a band who know exactly what they’re doing' - Ian Maleney on Slomatics' recently reissued Kalceanna and Flooding The Weir Continue reading...

I trust you'll make up your own mind as to whether it's any good or not, regardless of what I'd say.

'This is the logic of Venn diagrams, of Boolean gates, of OKCupid' - Ian Maleney on The Lobster Continue reading...

'its untethered nature, its lack of specificity, is frustrating when it is trying to be a close-up of a particular fractured family' - Ian Maleney on You're Ugly Too Continue reading...

'an echo, a ghostly presence gifted to us by the powers of magnetic tape' - Ian Maleney on David Toop's 1978 recordings of Yanomami ritual songs & ceremonies Continue reading...

Hilde Marie Holsen 'transforms the simply beautiful into the sublime' on Ask, says Ian Maleney Continue reading...

The Look Of Silence is 'intensely personal in a way that The Act of Killing is certainly not' says Ian Maleney Continue reading...

'blunted fragments of a monumental whole' - Ian Maleney on Prurient's Frozen Niagara Falls Continue reading...

'There are many choices we can make, few are presented to us here' - Ian Maleney on Russell Brand's The Emperor’s New Clothes Continue reading...

'an attack on the senses, a violence towards the audience that targets expectations of beauty, of wholeness, of integrity' - Ian Maleney on Jean Luc Godard's Adieu Au Langage Continue reading...

Paul Thomas Anderson's Pynchon adaptation is a beautiful and funny masterpiece of over-the-top story-telling, with a dark and serious heart, says Ian Maleney. Continue reading...

Patrick's Day is an interesting study of mental illness let down by a lack of conviction, says Ian Maleney Continue reading...

The conclusion to Peter Jackson's Tolkein project is "no more sophisticated than Die Hard, or an episode of Spartacus: Blood & Sand," says Ian Maleney Continue reading...