Back in the days of VHS, discovering a film was a common experience – countless people visited their local video store in the hope of finding a gem. Now, in the age of the internet, there are few out of the blue surprises left. Films locked on VHS? Sure, but […]
Month: March 2014
Blind Woman’s Curse (1970): Teruo Ishii’s Weird Jigsaw of Japanese Genre Cinema (Review)
Japanese cinema is known for its eccentrics, whether its Seijun Suzuki, Takashi Miike, Sion Sono, or the many people keeping the splatterpunk movement alive in the still-thriving V-Cinema scene that gave birth to Miike career some twenty-odd years ago. Sitting at the top of that tree, however, is Terou Ishii. […]
S08E11 – Knuckle Sandwich
Bleak Night (2014)Simply put, Korean cinema at its very best (Review)
Korean cinema came out of nowhere in the early 2000′s, blowing up conceptions for what action thrillers can be. They were the perfect antidote to a Hollywood system that was (and still is) becoming increasingly one-dimensional. In turn, giving directors like Park Chan-Wook, Kim Jee-Woon & Bong Joon-Ho the chance […]
S08E10 – Weapon of Choice
S08E09 – Away With The Warriors
White Dog (1982): Samuel Fuller’s Timeless attack on institutional racism (Review)
Slavery has been a hot topic in cinema over the past 18 months, what with critical & commercial darlings in 12 years a slave and Django unchained bringing racial inequality into the public discourse. With this social sickness being given an unheralded amount of attention there could be no greater […]
S08E08 – Animex 2014 Special Part 2
Wake in Fright (1971) All the validation ‘Ozploitation’ ever needed (Review)
For a long time, Wake in Fright (aka Outbreak) was regarded as one of the ‘great lost Australian films’. Although critically celebrated across the board, its infamously unsympathetic presentation of Australia, unflinching hunting scenes and poor box office saw it lost to history. Back in 2009, Ted Kotcheff’s film was […]
