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Andor Season 2 (2025) Round-up: Star Wars’ hard-to-swallow epic is just what fans needed
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The Magnificent Trio (1966) & Magnificent Wanderers (1977) Unearthing the Bookends of Chang Cheh’s Wuxia Reign
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Tomie (1998) She may keep coming back, but the audience won’t be

Phoenix Hunter-Clarke 19/11/2024
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; […]

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Late Night with the Devil (2023) — the film that gave me hope for horror again

Phoenix Hunter-Clarke 29/10/2024
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 […]

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Mildred Pierce (1945) Joan Crawford’s Academy Award-Winning Role Steals the Screen in Every Scene (Review)

Phoenix Hunter-Clarke 10/09/2024
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 […]

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Luminous Woman (1987) – A surreal Japanese study of alienation, violence and societal corruption (Review)

Phoenix Hunter-Clarke 20/05/2024
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 […]

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