‘City Of The Living Dead’ by Lucio Fulci
Scare and gore maestro Lucio Fulci, director of The House By The Cemetery, delivers another spaghetti horror ‘classic’ with this zombie nasty fresh from a pre-CG era, where glorious latex and dubbed...
View ArticleThe Ting Tings: Live at Kings College London
The Ting Tings stormed the stage at Kings College London this week to the point where I considered the venue too small for them. The dirty pop urchins were initially subdued while strumming their way...
View ArticleDouble Take
Johan Grimonprez’s mock docudrama is an intriguing fusion of documentary and narrative drama. It merges live action and 50s stock footage to tell the fictitious account of how Alfred Hitchcock met his...
View ArticleThe Hoxton Mutation
Areas normally evolve stylistically according to the culture of its residents, but what’s fascinating about the changing face of East London’s Shoreditch and Hoxton over the past ten to twelve years...
View ArticleColorama: Live at Luigi’s
There are certain things you might expect to find in the basement of an Italian restaurant: boxes of packaged spaghetti, some olives, a terrified cat. One thing I did not expect to find was Welsh...
View ArticleDavid Lynch’s “Crazy Clown Time”
David Lynch delivers a sprawling electronic first album laced with an edgy junkyard backdrop and nightmare undertones. Reminiscent of the soundtrack to one of his films, Crazy Clown Town is a cluttered...
View ArticleThe Poor Little Squirrel
That poor little squirrel, how did it get here amongst all this noise metal? Wandering lost and terrified through a land of looming monuments. It’s black eyes longing and big bushy tale fluffing around...
View ArticleThe Cabin in the Woods: Film review
On first appearance The Cabin in the Woods looks like just another genre movie: a group of teenagers take a weekend break to a relative’s dilapidated shack in the forest only to find themselves menaced...
View ArticleReturn To Witch Mountain: DVD review
After the mammoth box office flumping of Disney’s John Carter one cannot help but recall the studios earlier live action pictures from the 1970s and how different they were in comparison to the...
View ArticleMurder By Decree: DVD review
Retaining the dark and eerie style he established in 1974’s Black Christmas, Bob Clark’s Murder By Decree successfully blends fact and fiction as Sherlock Holmes and Watson go on the trail of Jack the...
View ArticleX: The Man With X Ray Eyes (DVD release)
The name Roger Corman is synonymous with the type of hack, horror sci-fi B movies one could only previously associate with William Castle. Corman has produced and directed over 450 movies and is still...
View ArticleThe Amazing Spiderman: Film review
After only five years since Sam Raimi’s final instalment in his Spiderman trilogy comes the inevitable franchise reboot from director Marc Webb. The film treads a familiar narrative ground to Raimi’s...
View ArticleThe Expendables 2 – Review
In the thick of the 1980s when one man army action films were a sure fire guarantee for box office gold, it wasn’t unusual to find cinemas littered with the type of high calibre trash that was until...
View ArticleTotal Recall
One of the first things to bear in mind about Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall is that, unlike the original 1990 Schwarzenegger film, it is not a fresh adaptation of Phillip K Dick’s short story We...
View ArticleSkyfall: Film review
Fifty years is a long time for a film franchise that has had its ups and downs but always retained the public love. The Bond legacy is also such a vital part of our culture and film history that one...
View ArticleMapmaking at the Raindance
This year celebrating its twentieth anniversary, the Raindance Film Festival presented (from its London location) a vast array of exciting new independent films from talented young directors, along...
View ArticleThe Master: Film review
Paul Thomas Anderson has come a long way since his directorial debut Hard Eight in 1996, since attracting a wealth of acting talent to his later projects that would rival a film by Robert Altman....
View ArticleSilver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook could have been a forgettable piece of syrupy Oscar bait had a hack director or narrow minded studio head got their mitts on in. Hurl Jennifer Anniston and Owen Wilson into the...
View ArticleTrouble With The Curve
Baseball movies have always been a hard pitch to British audiences, but over the years there have been a few entries in the sub-sport genre that have struck a chord. The overrated yet well regarded...
View ArticleThe Impossible
It was clear from his 2007 debut The Orphanage that Juan Antonio Bayona was a director to look out for and one whose skills at evoking high drama and tension could transcend the trappings of the horror...
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