GAME, a feature film written by 2000AD’s Rob Williams, enjoying a limited run in UK cinemas now, and has been getting plenty of critical praise.
A project from Invada Films, GAME, a black comedy, is produced and co-written by Geoff Barrow of Portishead and directed and co-written by John Minton.
Late summer 1993. After stealing a stash of money and drugs, ageing raver David (Marc Bessant) crashes his car deep in the woods – and, trapped in the wreckage, injured and helpless, he hangs suspended between life and death.
When a mysterious poacher (Jason Williamson) discovers him, no rescue comes, only a watchful, unsettling presence that seems intent on letting nature finish the job. As the hours stretch and the elements close in, a tense and claustrophobic battle of wills, and wits, unfolds, where survival hinges on outlasting both the wilderness and the predator at its edge…
The film opened last month and is screening across the UK & Ireland, with more dates and Ireland screenings this month. Screenings include a Q&A featuring members of the cast and crew.
The Nick Grimshaw show on 6 Music made GAME their film recommendation of the week, and it’s also received four star reviews from the Evening Standard and White Little Lies, who described it as a “a taut, lean and claustrophobic homegrown thriller.”
Check if your local arthouse cinema is planning to show GAME. Upcoming screenings are coming up at Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast and Bristol Watershed.
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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