Film Festival Preview: Celluloid Screams Classic Horror Allnighter
If you’ve never done a horror allnighter before you’re missing-out on an almost unique cinematic experience. Imagine spending your sleeping hours in a darkened room watching gore, comedy, monsters and all manner of indescribably acts (and that’s just the audience). It takes a delicate scientific balance of alcohol, fluids, snacks, steely determination and a black …
Incoming: The Lobster
The Lobster is a blackly funny love story set in a near future where finding love is a matter of life or death. It’s the new film from the highly acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos. The Lobster is out in cinemas on Friday.
Film Review: Estranged
Our brains can be fickle, such complex and intricate organs but when they go wrong they can destroy our world. If we lose our memory we lose the most vital part of ourselves. Not knowing where we come from or our upbringing makes us unsure of our present. Adam Levin’s new film, Estranged, plays on …
Film Review: Dear White People
Authentic Black (Afro-American/Black Minority Ethnic etc) voices are often hard to find in mainstream popular cinema. Events in America over the last year have highlighted that racism has never gone away and the dark shadow of institutionalised racism. Justin Simien sets his début feature, Dear White People, in the privileged halls of a prestigious Ivy …
Incoming: Crimson Peak
When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. From the imagination of director Guillermo del …
Film Review: Night of the Living Deb
Horror and comedy mix well when there’s the required care and attention to genre needs. Most famously realised by Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi, it’s a combination which can work brilliantly (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil) but more often ends up failing on both the humour and jumps (Life After Beth). In Night of the …
Incoming: Suffragette
Suffragette is the epic and thrilling first film about the remarkable untold story of the real foot soldiers of the Suffragette movement. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they …
Film Review: Aaaaaaaah!
There have been many twisted works of genius produced by British comedy over the years. The Monty Python crew, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, Chris Morris, Steve Coogan and a host of others have pushed boundaries and reinvented and revitalised the genre. Steve Oram will be familiar to some for his starring role …
DVD Review: Dark Matter Season 1
When it comes to science fiction on TV the benchmark is undoubtedly Star Trek, which is almost impossible to compete with in terms of budgets and depth of universe. However, in terms of low-budget sci-fi westerns, Firefly is not only a cult classic but is also a show whose popularity has lasted the test of …
Incoming: Regression
Regression is an upcoming American-Spanish thriller film directed and written by Alejandro Amenábar. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson and David Dencik. Regression is out in cinemas today.