Blu-ray Review: Halloween – “A wonderful slasher ride”
40 years after John Carpenter’s original Halloween changed the face of independent filmmaking and made an unforgettable impact on the...
Read MoreLFF checks out the best of feminist female-made short horror with WE ARE THE WEIRDOS 2019
Named after Fairuza Balk’s iconic line in The Craft, “We Are The Weirdos” is an acclaimed international genre shorts programme featuring...
Read MoreReview: Cold Pursuit – “Like watching Taken in a fridge while really, really high”
Hans Petter Moland directs Cold Pursuit – the remake of his own film Kraftidioten – replacing original star Stellan Skarsgård...
Read MoreReview: On The Basis Of Sex
Mimi Leder’s On The Basis of Sex Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the second film about Ruth Bader-Ginsburg this year, following the recent doc RBG....
Read MoreUS Blu-ray and DVD Releases: A Star Is Born, The Girl In The Spider’s Web, Robin Hood, Overlord and more
A Star is Born – I liked A Star is Born. The music is good, the performances are good, and Bradley Cooper looks like he’s going down...
Read MoreReview: Fassbinder’s World on a Wire (Welt am Draht) – “A remarkable piece of German film and science fiction history”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Starring Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Wolfgang Schenck “The...
Read MoreReview: Happy Death Day 2U – “An extremely smart sequel”
After helming the first film, Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) returns to direct the second instalment of...
Read MoreUS Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Bohemian Rhapsody, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Valentine, Rick and Morty, and more
Bohemian Rhapsody – What if a film was mired in controversy and nobody cared? Well, apparently said film would go on to become a...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: A Star Is Born – “Cooper and Gaga redefine their careers”
We complain about the reboot/rehash/reimagining of films more than we can count these days – it’s a virulent go-to ploy for lazy...
Read MoreReview: Piercing – “A visionary dark comedy”
I saw Piercing last year during Grimmfest in Manchester, where it was one of three or so stand-out films of the week. It was an early...
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