In the incredibly generous extras section of Second Sight’s new release – Lake Mungo, are appreciation videos from Rob Savage (Host) and Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead (indie mainstays). Both open with the same throughline, they were looking for genuinely scary movies beyond the same cliched selection of classics and […]
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Host of the Uncut Network. With a love of movies kicked off by Hong Kong Action and Claymation Monsters, Rob has forever been cradled in the bosom of Cinema. Rob has his hands in many a pie, including no budget film making. Filthy
Over the Edge (1979) Satire, Rawness & an Amazing Rock Soundtrack (Review)
Teenagers have been one of cinema’s great projects: from the 1960s to the 90s, entire waves and genres rose and fell in the attempt to get their bums on seats. From the teen sex comedy, beach and party movies, and the pink eiga, sadly, they are now an audience that […]
Stalker (2020) What’s in a movie title? (Review)
What’s in a title? Well, for the 2020 indie thriller, Stalker, quite a lot. Just a cursory google will see the film lost under the weight of one of Russian cinema’s most well-regarded sci-fi epics from Andrei Tarkovsky. Then there is Neil Jordan’s 2018 film, Greta, which also goes by […]
Threshold (2020) The modern hustle of regional horror (Review)
The last Arrow Video film I covered was Clapboard Jungle, an incredible resource for the would-be filmmaker. One piece of advice reiterated by many interviewees is to get out into the world and make something. The regularly regurgitated advice is to use any immediately available camera – even a smartphone […]
Clapboard Jungle (2020) Part Vlog Part Vital Tool for the aspiring filmmaker (Review)
New Arrow Video documentary, Clapboard Jungle, is a curious creation. It’s a documentary about filmmaking that covers multiple strands almost simultaneously. It’s a personal diary of director Justin McConnell as he grapples with the existential angst of being an up and coming writer-director who is seeing their peers, whether talented […]
Silent Action (1975) Sergio Martino, EuroCrime and the emergence of a fantastic new label (Review)
Among fans of European genre cinema of the 70s, Sergio Martino is best known for his killer run within the Giallo sub-genre: all the colours of the dark (1972), Torso (1973), Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972), The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh […]
Death Has Blue Eyes (1975) Skittish Greek Misadventures with the Lads (Review)
Greece isn’t exactly at the top of world cinema exporters – however, two names that have any cultural cache are Yorgos Lanthimos and the late Theo Angelopoulos. Even with that being the case, the country still managed to produce one of the nastier examples of 1970s horror, Nico Mastorakis’s Island […]
The Bloodhound (2020) Somewhere between David Lynch and Yorgos Lanthimos (Review)
In a package of interviews, Patrick Picard, writer/director of the Bloodhound – the latest of Arrow Video’s celebrations of young indie darlings – presents an idea that many horror literature fans may baulk at – Edgar Allan Poe was at his best when setting up a mystery. He also goes […]
Kagemusha (1980) Kurosawa, the master visual story-teller (Blu-ray Review)
74 years old Akira Kurosawa was when he directed Kagemusha. And, funnily enough, the 1970s weren’t a kind decade to the master director with the highest-profile film, of the three he produced that decade, being the marginal Serbian Adventure Movie, Dersu Uzala. A point stressed in the extras of this […]
The Columnist (2020) A Shrewdly Clever Dark Comedy Horror for the Online Age (Review)
I won’t go as far as calling the internet a mistake as it has opened up dialogue, culture and opportunities that never would’ve been available otherwise. We certainly wouldn’t exist without the internet. That being said, the advent of social media has provided ample opportunity to those with the most […]