“If what I think is going to happen does happen, no-one will send you the last film. You’ll have to come and get it.” Iván Zulueta’s Arebatto is as self-aware as it is hypnotising. I love the urgency of a film that commits to the container of a delivered film. […]
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V/H/S 99 (2022) Ambitious Latest Entry into Found Footage Anthology Franchise (Review)
“I think America’s got a huge rage revolution on the way. Everyone is so mad. Everyone’s Daddies got too rich.” CONTAINS SPOILERS Found footage is one of my favourite subgenres. It blurs the line between real and choreographed. The remnants of internet dark myths reverberate through every found footage endeavour. […]
Bad City (2022) The Fine Art Forms of Stunt Work and Fight Choreography (Review)
Kensuke Sonomura wastes no time in plunging us straight into the action with Bad City. On the surface, we’re introduced to Kaiko City, a town that seems to be past its glory days. It now withers away under the corruption of the financial corporations around it. The prosecutors bring it a […]
Daughter (2022) Oppressive & Impressive Micro Budget Thriller which questions the family unit (Review)
Masterfully crafting terror in vast and small spaces, Daughter seems to be an interrogation into the idealistic visions of the nuclear family. Corey Deshon (A Million Little Things, Voice, To Police), in his directorial debut, delves into horror with social issues to explore. His scathing, microscopic view of the conservative […]
The Intergalactic World of MF Doom (2)
The history of Hip Hop is one of the most diverse, multi-faceted and layered musical histories in the modern world. You could write fifty articles on it and still not touch the impact, policing, cultural significance and battles that went into solidifying it as one of the most important genres […]
Hip-Hop: An Origin Short Story (1)
It is no secret that arguably Hip-Hop is one of America’s greatest exports. Born out of the block parties in the Bronx. Hip-Hop was born out of other genres as most are, but we may be able to pinpoint the exact date the brave, often uncompromising genre first blasted through […]
The Oscars vs Horror: NOPE will last
I returned home from work leaving a pile of project papers and funding applications, to meet a pile of films, plays and exhibition concepts that are yet to be born. This is the life of a producer, writer and curator and I wouldn’t have it any other way. To be […]
January (2021) A Master Class in imagery, and the conflict between modernity and tradition (Review)
“There’s barely anyone left to die, so I do remember.” Andrey Paounov’s January encompasses the human soul reckoning with itself and the outside world in the midst of a snowstorm and unseen monsters no one will escape from. Andrey Paounov’s January encompasses the human soul reckoning with itself and the […]
The Sleep Experiment (2022) As Beautiful as it is Unnerving (VOD Review)
“I wanted to tell a story that explores what a human is capable of when pushed to the brink.” – John Farrelly – Director. John Farrelly’s THE SLEEP EXPERIMENT is a ride of human tenacity and broken wills. Farrelly takes us on a ride that anchors us within a gritty […]