It’s hard to believe now, but in 2008 ‘found footage’ movies were still all the rage thanks to the lingering influence of The Blair Witch Project and phone camera’s still mainly being for decoration. Home Movie is typical of the genre but was no doubt over shadowed by the infinitely […]
Reviews
Sam Raimi’s Fantastic and Dynamic Western: The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Evil Dead Rise (2023): Horror franchise reaches new heights
Letter to the Postman (2022) & Questions to the Filmmaker
In the final days of 2022, I happened upon an intriguing sixty-minute low-budget film. Entitled Letters to the Postman, it is an adaptation by British indie filmmaker Felix Dembinski of a short story by Robert Aickman which appeared in the author’s 1980 anthology Intrusions and proved to be his final […]
Nanny (2022) Bold Debut Subverts Stereotypical Supernatural Expectations (Review)
In Nikatyu Jusu’s debut feature Nanny, motherhood, race, class and West African folklore are explored wrapped up in a fiercely smart and subtly supernatural package, that manages to subvert stereotypical expectations. Anna Diop plays Aisha, a woman who has come to the United States from Senegal, in the hopes of […]
Classic Film Kid: The Godfather (1972) & Part II (1974)(Review)
Loki // Granblue Fantasy // Jughead Versus Vamperonica // … – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 14
Beta Ray Bill For Beginners – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 12
Drifting Dragons // Spider-Man // Guardians Of The Galaxy // Silver Surfer // … – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 11
The 4-Panel gang return with another heaping helping of comics and manga goodness, and this week there’s plenty to talk about. First up are Marvel’s newest super team and their first few outings in Strikeforce: Trust Me, Jeff Lemire’s new world-crossing barbarian in the first volume of Berserker Unbound, and […]