Review by Annie Riordan Every photograph leaves behind a negative image of itself, an inversion of darkness on light and shadow on sun. Can the same be said for photographic memories? And if so, where are those negatives stored? October – much like his namesake – is beautiful but melancholy. Returning home after a long […]
Review by Ben Bussey When a seasoned director of note steps back behind the camera, it puts an inevitable slant on the viewing experience. We can’t help but reflect on past glories and relate them to what we see before us now. Sometimes, if the latest work does not stand up well in comparison with that of […]
Review by Kit Rathenar When a film runs to a full two hours and inside the first half hour has already managed to demolish a church and stage a funeral for an elephant, you know you’re dealing with a director of remarkable if somewhat skewed vision. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s extraordinary Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), originally released […]
Review by Marc Patterson César (Luis Tosar) is a perpetually unhappy man. Everyday is a waking hell for him. However, to the residents of the apartment building he works in, they would never know it. This faithful doorman is the embodiment of polite servitude, a man whose character you’d never question. Underneath his polished exterior […]
by Stephanie Scaife 1987 was a good year to be a vampire. In October, just a few months after the release of The Lost Boys, Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire western hybrid Near Dark was unleashed on cinema screens across the US. Although initially doing poorly at the box office, Near Dark was well received by critics […]
By Keri O’Shea Massimo Dallamano’s a strange one. With his background as a cinematographer for Sergio Leone (working alongside him on the seminal movies A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More), he brought a very distinct look and feel to his own movies when he moved into the directorial chair and tried […]
By Keri O’Shea “You don’t really know much about Halloween…you thought no further than the strange custom of having your children wear masks and go out begging for candy…It was the start of the year in our old Celtic lands, and we’d be waiting… in our houses of wattles and clay. The barriers would […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Lovely Molly was not the film I expected it to be. I purposefully avoided reading too much detail about it, as I often do, but I was expecting a tale of a haunted house, or of a woman’s possession. That’s not what I got. The film’s got ghosts and demons, in […]
Review by Ben Bussey Sharks have had to put up with a lot over the years, haven’t they? Kept as pets by Bond villians; blown to smithereens and/or electrocuted by Roy Schieder; facing the wrath of LL Cool J after eating his bird. So how do they fare when pitted against Academy Award® winner Halle […]
Interview by Keri O’Shea I think I speak for all of us in the Brutal As Hell team who have seen this movie when I say that Some Guy Who Kills People has made a big impact on us. If there was ever proof positive that a good film can revisit familiar horror tropes and […]
by Comix Cartoons are awesome. There, I said it, I said what we’re all thinking! Cartoons are freaking awesome, especially the cartoons these days. With such sweet, bodacious shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show, and The Amazing World of Gumball, it’s no wonder I can’t peel myself away from the TV long enough to eat […]