Review by Dustin Hall For many this summer, this is the one we’ve been waiting for. Pacific Rim. Giant monsters flashing us back to Godzilla’s glory days, mechs reminding us of Mazinger Z, carnage to the extreme, and finally, FINALLY, a movie that isn’t a remake, an adaptation, or a sequel. And they said it […]
Review by Comix Japan has no luck. If it’s not a natural disaster destroying half the coast, then it’s Godzilla or some other godforsaken monstrosity tearing apart whatever’s left. After so many crises and near brushes with death, you’d think the Land of the Rising Sun would be prepared for the possibility of anything, but […]
Interview by Keri O’Shea Artist Robin Bougie has been wreaking his awesome graphic havoc on the world for many years now. His magazine, Cinema Sewer, combines a healthy love of good ol’ fashioned smut with film reviews, articles and retrospectives, all topped off with that inimitable cartoon artwork. As we wait on the release of […]
Review by Kit Rathenar It’s not often I watch a film that’s genuinely so terrible that I don’t know where to start laying into it first, but The Vatican Exorcisms is one of the few to earn this dubious accolade. If the team responsible for this trainwreck were hoping to discredit the Catholic Church, bad […]
By Comix Kids are weird. They smell weird, they say weird shit, and, if Christmas movies are to be believed, they have the power to make wishes come true through the magic of innocence. But nothing is weirder than a kid’s imaginary friend, who could be anything from a rainbow goldfish to a talking rock […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Clara (Gemma Arterton) and her daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) are forced to begin a new life in a dreary seaside town after Clara murders a man who pursued them at their former dwelling. Clara, now selling herself on the street, takes advantage of down-and-out Noel (Daniel Mays), by taking over his […]
Review by Ben Bussey Let’s not beat around the proverbial bush. What we have here is a classic case of a low budget straight-to-DVD movie cashing in on another similarly-themed major movie with a similar-sounding title (the film in this case having been retitled specifically to cash in further – Apocalypse Z was originally known […]
Review by Comix Who would you want to spend the Apocalypse with? I mean, really? The clouds are darkening, Old Man Scratch is rapping at your window, and all the righteous are being catapulted into Heaven like a bra slingshot launching water balloons and wouldn’t you know it, you got left behind. Would you choose […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi 1968 was a damn good year for horror films. The US gave us the very modern Rosemary’s Baby and Night of the Living Dead, while in the UK, we had period horror films The Devil Rides Out and Witchfinder General. In Japan, the horror film delved much further back in time. […]
By Keri O’Shea The majority of short films which we encounter are put together, in the broadest sense, to entertain. More often that not, this means that they have a tale to tell, however brief it may be. However, this isn’t the only way to use the medium of the short film at all, and […]
Review by Tristan Bishop We’ve all seen those ghost hunting TV programmes – the ones with a presenter, camera crew and an overacting ‘medium’ like the disgraced Derek Acorah (I shall be careful here as, whilst I write this, a report is on the news about a psychic winning damages from a paper for calling […]