You’ll have to pardon me if my excitement is quite noticeably more palpable than usual, but my inner 10 year old self is jumping for joy at the opportunity to rewatch and review one of my absolute favourite films of all time. Directed by Tim Burton and released in 2007, […]
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Dark City (1998) — An unfathomably influential cult classic
Picture this: you wake up naked and vulnerable in a bathtub, in a room that you swear you’ve never entered in your life. You don’t know where you are, how you got there, or even your own name, and absolutely everything about your life is a total mystery to you. […]
Tomie (1998) She may keep coming back, but the audience won’t be
One of the most common tropes of all time in media is that of a missing or murdered teenage girl — a horror story that is tragically a reality for far too many. Typically, the narrative opens with the detective protagonist studying the life of the subject of their case; […]
Late Night with the Devil (2023) — the film that gave me hope for horror again
Found footage; analogue horror; demonic possession; a deal with the Devil… the top four tropes I, as a huge horror fan, have felt have been oversaturated and smothered with for the last decade or so. “Please,” I have too often thought to myself, “if you’re going to use yet another […]
Mildred Pierce (1945) Joan Crawford’s Academy Award-Winning Role Steals the Screen in Every Scene (Review)
The story of an abusive parent is a tale as old as time, and sadly, a reality for many – from the exploitation of finances and constant verbal vilification, to emotional manipulation that makes the victim feel like escape is a pipe dream. What’s significantly more unheard of is the […]
Luminous Woman (1987) – A surreal Japanese study of alienation, violence and societal corruption (Review)
Picture this: a hulking man advances, barefoot and wearing nothing but trousers and a fur jacket – one might easily assumed he’d skinned himself – through a dystopian desert with dirt, rubbish and waste spanning the entire frame. The very air is tinted with purple, as if the atmosphere itself […]