Andrei Tarkovsky’s third film, following his chilling debut Ivan’s Childhood and the mammoth Andrei Rublev, Solaris is a film that is more about experience and environment than enjoyment or leisure. Clocking in at 2 hours and 40 minutes, this science-fiction voyage into the human soul is anything but fun and […]
Month: August 2016
Cinema Eclectica 76 – Neon Demon Vs. Dayglo Cenobite
We return from the badlands of the director’s lottery to sink our teeth into something gaudy. Kicking things off is a minority report on the new “Ghostbusters” (spoiler – it’s actually good), before heading into Off The Shelf with “Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film”, Ron Howard’s “Cocoon” and “Around […]
S13E01 – Sunnycon Special 2016
Buster Keaton: Complete Short Films – 1917-1923 (Review)
The history of cinema is fascinating when journeying back to its origins, illustrating how much has changed over the course of time. Take science fiction and horror as the prime examples, both are worlds away from their respective zeitgeists – almost as if comparing night with day. Comedy is different […]
Baskin (2015) Nightmare Hell Horror fresh out of Turkey (Review)
For seasoned horror and gore aficionados, Baskin popped up as if from nowhere, whetting many people’s appetites as a brutal gore-fest, something that could satisfy an itch with more substance than other crass films that have emerged on the festival circuit. A Directorial Turkish debut from director Can Evrenol, Baskin starts […]
Burroughs: The Movie (1983) A Bizarre treat for fans of William S. Boroughs (Review)
Howard Brookner was a film student at NYU with Jim Jarmusch and Tom DiCillo when he made a low-budget observational documentary about the most groundbreaking and original American writer of the 20th century, William S Burroughs. It should have been the start of a career to match his classmates, both […]