Anybody wondering whether Stella Cadente is a traditional royal costume drama will have their questions answered about twenty-six minutes in, when the King’s assistant goes out to the woods to have sex with a melon while an aria from Madame Butterfly plays. As confident in its own eccentricities as you’d […]
Month: October 2016
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Harry Belafonte and the overlooked birth of the Neo-Noir (Review)
Looking for Richard (1996) Al Pacino of the creative process and Shakespeare (Review)
Body Double (1984) Misogyny and the self satirising artist? (Review)
Indicator Series has launched this Monday with a wonderful statement of intent, elsewhere on the site you can read our review of John Carpenter’s Christine, a release supplemented with the most definitive roster of extras one could hope for. The same is true of their other debut release, Brian De […]
Keyframe Episode 60 – The Homena Homena Fruit
Christine (1983) The “Ugly-Duckling” of Carpenter’s 80s run gets the respect it deserves (Review)
As culture becomes more fixated on nostalgia, we’re going to have to spend a lot of time reassessing what happened two or three decades ago. At the moment that means the Eighties, with everything from Stranger Things to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles drawing from The Me Decade. Comparing nostalgia for the eighties to […]
4-Panel 60 – Bring Me The Head of Quincy M.E.
The Hills Have Eyes (1977) The Evolution of Wes Craven, the rule-breaker (Review)
PX10 – EGX 2016 Special Part 2
Hollywood’s Greatest Underdog
The French film Elle, recently selected for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination, is soon to be released next month in America, bringing the name Verhoeven back into the limelight — although, perhaps not in the way that we might expect. Paul Verhoeven elicits controversy. His films are rarely without contention, […]