For a brief period of time, it seemed as if Dennis Hopper was going to be one of the brightest stars of Hollywood. After appearing in a string of mostly low budget films in the 60s (The Trip, Night Tide, Cool Hand Luke etc) his popularity culminated in Easy Rider, […]
Reviews
Midnight (2021) Who said the wheel needed reinventing? (Review)
Between Gangnam Style, BTS, Parasite, and Squid Game, we have some monumentally successful Korean exports, each one putting the small peninsula on the cultural map to an entirely different audience than the last. Squid Game is especially relevant to Montage Pictures’ release of Midnight – the casting of Wi Ha-jun […]
Classic Film Kid – Down by Law (1986)
A Banquet (2021) Domestic Body Horror and Expert Sound Design (Cinema/VOD Review)
The Incarnation (2022) More Interiors, Less Demonology (VOD Review)
The Incarnation is the directorial debut by Isaac Walsh, starring Taye Diggs (Empire, Chicago) and Jessica Uberuaga (Take Back, Vigilante Diaries) as a married couple desperately seeking success and new beginnings in Los Angeles. With a business venture rapidly going south, the couple moves into a lush property that seems […]
Bartleby (1970): literature’s greatest enigma gets a fine, clever modernisation (Review)
Herman Melville is most famous for writing one of the American novel’s greatest epics in Moby-Dick, but his second most fascinating work couldn’t be more different in terms of scale. A modest, compact short story about a Wall Street clerk who sends his office into turmoil by politely refusing all […]
Voices (1973) Proto The Others, Pre-Leading Female Characters in Horror (Review)
Caveat (2020) The latest effort in Irish Horror’s killer run of form (Blu-ray Review)
When drifter and amnesiac Isaac (Jonathan French) accepts a job from dodgy cockney client Moe (Ben Caplan), he soon discovers he is in for so much more than he bargained for. The job he is offered consists of “babysitting” Moe’s psychologically troubled niece, Olga, played by Leila Sykes. Olga resides […]
Skinny Tiger Fatty Dragon (1990) Stunning Action, Tone Deaf Comedy (Review)
One Night in Miami (2021) A Conversation with History (Review)
Originally released on Amazon Prime Video and cinemas back in January 2021, Regina King’s feature-length debut One Night in Miami, an adaptation of Kemp Powers’ 2013 play of the same name, who also wrote the screenplay, closed out the year with a Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray release in December. […]