Review by Ben Bussey About twenty minutes into this film, I found myself wishing I’d taken a leaf out of Annie’s book and attempted this one as an as-it-happens review, much as she did with Adam Chaplin recently. As this slightly oddball, clearly cut-price attempt to capture the Dracula prequel market on DVD prior to […]
By Keri O’Shea As a fan and as a reviewer, I can usually find plenty to say about the pre-release movies I get sent. It’s what we do here, after all. Whether I love a film or I hate it, I can – I hope – explain my response to it in a fairly detailed […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Put two horror fans in the same room as each other and they’ll undoubtedly find countless films to collectively gush over, sharing their love for a broad and persevering genre until the cows come home. Give a whole bunch of horror fans internet access and conventions and film festivals and you’ll end […]
Review by Ben Bussey What would you do if you knew it was your last day on Earth – indeed, the last day on Earth full stop? We tend to love our post-apocalyptic fantasies – in which, invariably, it is not life itself but the social order that has been eradicated – but movies which actually face the end […]
Review by Ben Bussey My mama always said that life is like a microbudget indie movie from a first time writer-director: you never know what you’re gonna get. Oftentimes the results are a little messy, with inexperience and uncertainty very much in evidence. However, there’s often a spark of real excitement and a charge of […]
By Keri O’Shea Much as I love supernatural horror, it has to be said that I’m one fussy bitch when it comes to the genre. Don’t get me wrong – it doesn’t stop me watching purportedly scary films – only frequently finding faults with what I do see. I guess, deep down, I’m always holding […]
Review by Ben Bussey It all could have gone so well. A dystopian futuristic fantasy for the Occupy generation, Bounty Killer shows a devastated world in which – hooray! – the white collar criminals have actually been held accountable for their crimes, every tax-dodging corporate fat cat having been forced into hiding with a price […]
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey How not to make a first impression, lesson one: if you’re supposed to telephone a long-established and revered filmmaker responsible for one of your favourite films from the last few years, it helps if you do it at the time and date you were allotted, as opposed to two full days early. […]
Review by Tristan Bishop In our digital, cloud storage age, it’s almost impossible to imagine films becoming ‘lost’ – as soon as they’ve been converted to a software format then they can be duplicated, shared and stored many times over at negligible cost. This wasn’t always the case of course – when your movie came […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi A young man disappears shortly after ingesting an experimental drug as part of a research project. An old friend decides to investigate his disappearance when she digs deeper into his research into drug experiments by the US government during the 1960s. She finds herself in cahoots with a washed-up author, and […]
By Comix Pin-up art tends to have its ups and downs. First getting popular in WWII, airplane fighters found themselves painting busty ladies on the side of their ride with such timeless names as Versatile Lady and Back Seat Betty. The fifties exploded into a bonanza of painted, photographed, and penciled pin-up girls, and this […]