Incoming: Mother
A couple’s relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. Mother is out in cinemas from Friday.
Film Review: Strong Island
The arrival of Netflix, and other streaming services, to our shores has heralded a new way of watching TV and films. It has also changed the way film distribution works. Whilst there’s a debate around theatrical versus streaming releases, it has allowed many directors to reach a wider audience. Netflix has a particularly strong offering …
Film Festival Preview: Celluloid Screams 2017
Celluloid Screams has cemented itself as a major player in the UK horror calendar. Renowned for its strong selection of independent and worldwide horror films, it’s strength lays within the diversity and breadth of features and shorts on offer. This year, the festival organisers have outdone themselves. Not only have they secured their strongest line-up …
Incoming: It
When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries. It is out in cinemas from today.
Blu-Ray Review: Fires on the Plain
You can probably count the number of genuinely good remakes which are better than the originals on the digits of two hands. It’s safe to say that they’re mostly reinterpretations of old films (The Thing, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Maltese Falcon, Little Shop of Horrors etc). This is precisely what Shin’ya Tsukamoto …
Blu-Ray Review: Kill, Baby Kill
When it comes to the pantheon of Italian horror film directors, there’s perhaps only Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci who are above Mario Bava. Bava, whose renowned as a director, screenwriter, cinematographer and special effects artists, is very much an all-rounder. Prolific during the ‘60s and ‘70s, he worked in cinema for over four decades. …
Incoming: Wind River
Cory Lambert discovers a body in the rugged wilderness of the Wind River Indian Reservation. The situation is eerily similar to the death of his own daughter. The FBI sends rookie agent Jane Banner to investigate. A Florida native, Jane is completely unprepared for the oppressive weather and isolation that is the essence of winter …
Incoming: Belle de Jour
Beautiful young housewife Severine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Severine pays a visit and eventually begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of …
Film Review: Insyriated
With the civil war in Syria gradually approaching its endgame, there’s going to be a huge amount of work to do in terms of rebuilding both the infrastructure and a fragmented society. Riven with conflicts, both with the Assad government and daesh, it’s likely to be a slow process. The crisis has been covered extensively …
Film Review: The Lure
The vast majority of us were not born into money, and the vast majority of us will never be rich. Such is the desire to become wealthy that millions of people play lotteries and gamble against huge odds. However, history has provided us with a much more poetic group with get-rich-quick plans: The treasure hunter. …