It’s carnage this week. Complete lawless misrule. What could have caused this? Was it the orange skies? The smooth jazz playing in the background? The release of a new Michael Fassbender film? It’s the latter, obviously, as Film of the Week “The Snowman” gets Ryan, Graham, Aidan, and new recruit […]
Month: October 2017
4 Panel 113 – Judge Death Does Bollywood
It’s time for your weekly dose of comics and manga with 4-Panel! Hidden in the mist of tangents and nonsense are the trailer for The New Mutants, Cable’s existence as a movie character (but nobody is committed to saying much else), Marvel’s plan for their very own brilliantly-monikered convention, and […]
The Haunting (1963) the impenetrable monochrome terror of black and white horror (Review)
The transformation of the haunted-house subgenre began in Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, where the house, rather than just the ghosts within it, demonstrated paranormal abilities. In his essay ‘Supernatural Horror’ H.P. Lovecraft argued that the point of Poe’s story was to show that the house […]
Shaft (1971) The icon behind the legendarily cool music (Review)
There’s Always Vanilla (1971) George Romero’s Lo-Fi & Savage Anti-Advertising Satire (Review)
S15E03 – Nazgûl Tourism Board
Cinema Eclectica 132 – Summoning Keanu For The Ultimate Man Date
London Film Festival 2017, Part 4: Hanging Up
Maybe I wasn’t adventurous enough. But the way the LFF advertises its slate of films, it’s too tempting not to be. See, there’s an ‘official competition’, but unlike major film festivals like Cannes or Venice, the most hotly anticipated offerings aren’t in it, for the most part— London likes its […]
