If there’s anyone out there who still doubts that Michelangelo Antonioni was a genius, consider this: he made the British overcome their prurience. On its 1966 release, his classic Blow-Up was a substantial hit in the UK among audiences who were not primarily interested in watching the latest film from […]
Movies & Documentaries
Monster (2003) Brutal and Beautifully Performed Serial Killer Psychodrama (Blu-Ray Review)
Hello everyone, it’s Alex here, and this is the first non-Classic Film Kid piece I’ve ever done, so I now have free reign to talk about whatever I want. So of course I begin with innocence and purity by reviewing a film about serial killer Aileen Wuornos in a life […]
Hellbender (2022): Feel the Chaos of a Teenage Witch (Blu-Ray Review)
Hellbender is the sixth feature film from the Adams family (made up of Toby Poser, John Adams and Zelda Adams) and their third in the horror genre. Following its release on Shudder in February, it arrives on DVD and digital through Acorn Media International making it their most readily available […]
Frightfest 2022: Short Films & Everyone Forgot
We conclude our frightfest coverage for 2022 with a look at the short films that featured as part of the events discovery screen. For the full down of all the shorts that were featured, we have a handy article for your reading pleasure HERE. Besides being a nice palette cleanser, […]
Frightfest 2022: Incredible but true (Festival Review)
Quentin Dupieux is a fascinating multihyphenate. For my generation, he emerged with the puppet Flat Eric and his dance single, flat beat. Since then, he emerged as a filmmaker and his first notable cut-through came in 2010’s Rubber A.K.A. The killer tyre movie, and in the decade since he’s continued […]
Orchestrator of Storms (Frightfest 2022)(Review)
Many directors, namely European cult ones, have fallen by the wayside in the throes of time. Very few of them have had such a dramatic positive shift in public – albeit public in a cult horror way – opinion than that of French surrealist Jean Rollin. Very much a filmmaker […]
FrightFest 2022: The Leech (Festival Review)
A well-meaning Catholic priest, desperate to act out the pinnacle of good samaritan cheer and Christmas charity, inadvertently allows a drifter and his girlfriend to take refuge in his deceased mother’s house for the holidays. Father David soon realises, that taking in strangers may not have been his best plan, […]
The Big Chill (1983): nostalgic, reflective, snarky and full of love – a warm hug of a film (Blu-Ray Review)
College days, or university days as they are known in the UK, can be among the most memorable and formative that people experience. The friendships made, the ambitions held, the ideals believed in. Sometimes these days help shape our lives, other times we wonder what happened to the days and […]
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021) Entertainingly Rustic Genre Mashup… with Caveats (VOD review)
I do love a good mashup of genres in a movie. From Horror Musicals to Sci-Fi Actioners, a blending of ideas and rules often hits my cinematic sweet spot and probably explains my penchant for Korean cinema. So when I heard of Edwin’s 2021 Indonesian film Vengeance is Mine, All […]
Her Way (2022) Sentimental and melancholic but truthful (Cinema & VOD Review)
Quite an earnest film about sex work – I imagine – is more an unflinching look at working simply to survive. Marie is a single mother, trying to make enough money to send her son to college in the hopes that he can become a chef. Her current income cannot […]