Editorial
A small editorial section on the cinema world Redirected moved through — genre essays, regional film history, and career-shape pieces on the people who made the film and the people they worked alongside.
Essays
Post-Brexit British-Baltic Co-Productions: A 2026 Assessment
A decade after Redirected demonstrated the potential of British-Lithuanian co-production, Marcus Halloran examines how Brexit reshaped the institutional funding landscape and whether the model survives in 2026.
Have Streaming Platforms Finally Started Fixing Discovery?
A 2026 commentary on the streaming industry's pivot toward editorial curation — and what it means for cult and genre-hybrid films like Redirected that fell through the algorithmic cracks for years.
How to Watch International Crime Comedies: A Viewer's Framework
A systematic five-step framework for calibrating to crime comedies that cross cultural borders — covering production origin, genre hybridity, displacement logic, and directorial location choices. Redirected (2014) is the primary working example throughout.
The Problem With Finding Cult Films on Streaming
Why streaming algorithms bury films like Redirected — and what to actually do about it. An opinion on the discovery infrastructure problem facing niche cinema in the Netflix era.
10 Crime Comedies That Turn Being Lost in the Wrong Place Into Pure Comedy
A friendly look at ten crime comedies — from In Bruges to Redirected (2014) and Fargo — where displacement is the comic engine rather than the backdrop.
The Comedy-Thriller Genre Doesn't Travel Easily
Why heist-comedy ensemble films struggle to cross borders, and how Redirected solves the problem structurally rather than through translation.
Vinnie Jones and the British Actor Abroad
A career-shape look at why post-football British leading men keep showing up in European and American B-pictures, and what they bring to the form.
Heist Comedies, Sorted: A Working Reference
A structural reference to the heist-comedy form, from The Italian Job through Lock, Stock and Snatch to In Bruges and Redirected.
Baltic Cinema's Decade of Renaissance
The 2010s Baltic cinema renaissance — Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian productions that rebuilt the regional industry.