By Ben Bussey Hard to believe it’s almost eight years since Rodriguez and Tarantino released their ambitious double-feature Grindhouse in US cinemas to a staggering lack of success. Stranger still to think that a cinematic venture that was deemed a colossal failure on release has in fact proved so influential that we’re still feeling its […]
By Tristan Bishop Japanese director Sion Sono has been gradually making an international name for himself since the eighties. He really started attracting attention in 2001 with the gruesome and creepy Suicide Club, riding the J-horror wave that exploded after Hideo Nakata’s Ringu (1998), and in recent years has seen enormous critical success with 2010’s […]
How well can a TV show hold up after fifty years? Surprisingly well, it turns out. No doubt we could pick and choose any number of once-popular shows from the 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s and be overwhelmed by how dated they feel, how old hat the storytelling and dialogue seem, how cheesy and […]
By Ben Bussey I can think of almost nothing more certain to make every reader aged over 30 wince in agonising realisation of their own increasing years than the fact that Drew Barrymore has just turned 40. How could it be that the cute little moppet who melted the hearts of the world in ET […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi It was recently reported that David Cronenberg is no fan of self-appointed online film critics who lack the backing of a legitimate powerhouse of say, a newspaper. Well, if he’s right, here’s hoping I’m one of the ‘quite good’ ones, even if I do continue to ‘dilute’ the voices of those real […]
By Keri O’Shea Post-apocalyptic or dystopian movies always seem to be balanced on a knife-edge, both telling audiences about certain anxieties that existed for the future, whilst also being very much of the time when they were made; they act as both time-capsule and time machine. In the case of Hardware, re-released here on its […]
Review by Quin This movie is great! I just had to get right to the point. After all, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead doesn’t waste any of its 99 minutes, and I wanted to pay it the respect that it has so clearly earned. This is a fast moving, fun, inventive, well-made, well-acted, grisly ride […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife This is the kind of film that I really don’t enjoy reviewing, because to say anything is to say too much. So I’d urge you to go in cold if you haven’t already seen it. If you have any expectations, you’re likely to be disappointed because I can almost guarantee that […]
By Keri O’Shea In former times, people thought of diseases and afflictions as evidence of God’s wrath, or even evidence of the intervention of malign forces – namely demons, entities which could infiltrate and possess the human body, given the opportunity. In modern times, we have (mostly) disposed of these ideas, and now view afflictions […]
By Ben Bussey I’m not sure I need to open on a disclaimer, but I really feel the need to emphasise straight away that I am not in any way biased against mainstream horror. There does tend to be this default ‘mainstream bad, indie good’ mentality that comes up among self-professed serious genre fans, but […]
By Svetlana Fedotov European comics are a bit of a mystery lot. Whilst there is plenty of American and Japanese work for fans to pick through, those across the pond are having a hard time breaking into the US comic scene. For every Tin-Tin and 2000 AD that does breach the bloated shores of comic […]