Originally starting life as a web serial by the appropriately monikered David Wong, John Dies at the End has grown into a published novel (and a sequel This Book Is Full of Spiders), before being developed by Bubba Ho-Tep and Phantasm director Don Coscarelli. Now in 2014, Eureka films are […]
Rob Simpson
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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.
Wings (1927): Silent Spectacle and the legendary birth of the Blockbuster (Review)
Reviewing silent cinema is a difficult task, evaluating something so antiquated with the sensibilities of the modern era requires the ability to look past modernity and adopt an eye keyed into the gaze they were first viewed with. Failing that, legacy is always an entry point into the early days […]
Teenage (2013): Inspired, Cut out Punk Documentary about the teenage experience (Review)
People between the ages of 13 and 19 have obviously always existed, the lifestyle of the teenager is commonly believed to have been invented in the 1950s with the popularisation of Rock ‘n Roll. In Matt Wolf’s idiosyncratic documentary and ‘living collage’, Teenage, he gives voice to accounts of what […]
Kiss of the Damned (2012): Twisted Euro Vampires in the wrong movie (Review)
During the director interview on Eureka’s release of Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned, the director states that titles like Twilight are children’s films and don’t belong to the great tradition of vampires in cinema. Although that wasn’t the influence behind the film, it’s a good point to approach from. […]
Computer Chess (2013) Part Comedy, Part Doc, and Defiantly retro (Review)
Computer Chess (Masters of Cinema’s latest release) was part-financed by Kickstarter. Now it might not sound like much but this is a momentous turn in fate, for a long time websites like Kickstarter have been an appealing means of community-led sufficiency for creative projects, but at the same time, they […]
Il Bidone (1955): Playing the game in a giant’s shadow (Review)
Fellini is esteemed at the top of the tree of classic film directors, only for the UK market he hasn’t been served anywhere near as well as his fellow masters of cinema. There have been bits and pieces released on limited runs here and there, but it’s still lacking. Enter […]
Top 10 Movies of 2013
Our 2013 in Review posts started yesterday looking at the worst films of the year. Today we are moving onto something a bit more positive in the very best 2013 had to offer. There’ll only be a top 10 this year, because when you do a top 25 all lists […]
Wolf Children (2012) From the same cloth as Miyazaki’s Meticulous Fables (Review)
In Anime’s golden age, the appeal of this formerly niche Japanese art-style broke down barriers because it actively incorporated global inspirations, with Cowboy Bebop being the crown prince of examples. From the type of stories told, references made – anime’s footprint expanded, turning this once provincial form into something globally […]
Big Trouble in Little China (1986): The Most Entertaining Action Movie in the West (Review)
For those of you who haven’t seen Big Trouble in Little China, I don’t know who you are what with it being one of the most over-broadcast films of UK TV of the past twenty years, but I’ll continue. John Carpenter’s 9th feature-length film is a Chinese Fantasy movie veiled […]
The Long Goodbye (1973) The Beatnik and Neo-Noir Classic (Review)
Despite the number of classics that fit under the banner, film noir is a style of crime cinema that has been bizarrely confined to the era of its inception. More often than not, those films made outside of the 1940s and 50s tend to be classics of their respective era. […]