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Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972) The Italian Gore Master’s Pivotal Horror
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Night Moves (1975) Gene Hackman’s Memorable 70’s Thriller Comes to 4K

Ben Chambers 05/05/2025
Night Moves (1975) Gene Hackman’s Memorable 70’s Thriller Comes to 4K

I ended up seeing Night Moves (1975) about a month before this Criterion edition came out, due to the passing of its star, Gene Hackman. I will admit, I thought the film was fine, though many people consider it to be a much better film than I did. Hackman’s performance […]

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Tokyo Pop (1988) The Lost Gen-X Cult Classic Gets Its Moment

Nora Rawn 05/05/2025
Tokyo Pop (1988) The Lost Gen-X Cult Classic Gets Its Moment

If you’ve heard an extra joyful noise in the air this spring, it may be coming from devotees of Tokyo Pop. Victim of a failed distribution company that kept it from taking its rightful status as a cult classic, the time for Fran Rubel Kuzui’s debut to have its moment […]

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Freaky Tales (2024): High on Style, Inconsistent on Substance

Alex Paine 01/05/2025
Freaky Tales (2024): High on Style, Inconsistent on Substance

The amount of 80s nostalgia there has been over the last ten years or so has meant that it’s harder and harder for films set in the decade stand out: regardless of quality, there’s nothing that stops them being seen as cynical bursts of nostalgia for a time gone by, […]

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The Magnificent Trio (1966) & Magnificent Wanderers (1977) Unearthing the Bookends of Chang Cheh’s Wuxia Reign

Ben Jones 01/05/2025
The Magnificent Trio (1966) & Magnificent Wanderers (1977) Unearthing the Bookends of Chang Cheh’s Wuxia Reign

In the years that followed the move from Shanghai to Hong Kong as the heart of the Chinese film industry, following the “Cultural Revolution” in 1949, Shaw Brothers wanted to modernise their studio by bringing in new and fresh directors and stars, tying them to contracts and giving them regular […]

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A Woman of Paris (1923) Chaplin’s First Drama Film Falls Short 

Ben Chambers 27/04/2025
A Woman of Paris (1923) Chaplin’s First Drama Film Falls Short 

A Woman of Paris (also known with the subtitle: A Drama of Fate) was Charlie Chaplin’s second directed feature. He made the odd choice, given how his fame was based on comedy, of wanting to direct a completely dramatic work and avoid comedy entirely. The film begins with the main […]

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Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972) The Italian Gore Master’s Pivotal Horror

Jake Kazanis 27/04/2025
Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972) The Italian Gore Master’s Pivotal Horror

For anyone who has made the deep dive into horror or lowbrow Italian cinema, it’s hard to find a person who doesn’t harbour an affection for the dirty, sleazy, violently imaginative work of Lucio Fulci. He’s a director who’s gory nightmares rank him among Mario Bava and Dario Argento as […]

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Noise (2017): getting to the truth of true crime

Graham Williamson 25/04/2025
Noise (2017): getting to the truth of true crime

Sakka is a streaming service whose mission is to provide a global platform for independent Japanese films. This would have been laudable enough back in the DVD era, when a small handful of labels decided which non-Anglophone films would be distributed in the UK. It’s even more vital these days, […]

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The Ugly Stepsister (2025) a body horror that goes beyond the fairy tale

Alice Boyd-Leslie 25/04/2025
The Ugly Stepsister (2025) a body horror that goes beyond the fairy tale

In a cinematic landscape oversaturated with safe reboots and sanitized fairy tales, The Ugly Stepsister bursts through the doors and screams in your face as if to say, “No more!” Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt takes the familiar Cinderella fairytale and rips it apart at the seams, stitching it back together […]

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud (2024) E-Commerce and the End of the World

Rob Simpson 23/04/2025
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud (2024) E-Commerce and the End of the World

Many modern Japanese directors don’t operate in the same way as their Western counterparts. When a Western director goes quiet for years, it’s often assumed they’re struggling to get funding or have fallen out of favour. In Japan, while funding can absolutely be an issue, the industry has pivoted in […]

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Dead Mail (2024) 80s Horror, Liminal Dread & A Post Office Under Siege

Sampira Al-Fihri 17/04/2025
Dead Mail (2024) 80s Horror, Liminal Dread & A Post Office Under Siege

A bloodstained note finds its way into a 1980s post office. We’re all a little ambitious, aren’t we? Many films try to capture the aesthetics from fondly remembered decades, Dead Mail finds a beautiful balance between honouring a 1980s aesthetic and crafting a pace that doesn’t make anything seem too […]

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