Sightseers

my local cineworld has ~16 screens but is unable to screen smaller films on anything but the shittiest schedule. because of that i didn't get to see this at the cinema so i had to wait. it was worth the wait. beautifully dark but without the foreboding menace of kill list. i can see this happening at the same time as the events of kill list in my head. the wheatley universe is one where everything is starting to go off kilter. people are the worst possible version of themselves. one good thing about seeing this late is that i visited the pencil museum before i realised it was in the film. i... read more

i'd been meaning to see this early ben wheatley movie for some time (i'd only seen free fire and high-rise but i love those, especially high-rise), and then a "special event" screening where it was packaged with a comedy show came up and i seized the opportunity! i have a feeling now that i've seen it, that this is one i'll be revisiting regularly. i knew to expect this to be surprising and dark, but i did not know in what way, and it was in fact particularly surprising and pitch black! i liked how i really did not know what was gonna happen next at any given moment and don't feel like i ever... read more