The Moor is the debut feature-film from Chris Cronin, and it stays true to the UK’s rich history of regional folk horror while making damn sure to get the most out of the locality it’s named after – specifically Yorkshire. Horror has a long history rooted in the area, from […]
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Sorcery (2023): A Patient, Ethereal Addition to the Post-2010s Folk Horror Revival
There’s been quite a boom in the folk horror scene over the past decade and a half as filmmakers like Ben Wheatley, Robert Eggers, Ari Aster, Oz Perkins and Goran Stolevski have each crafted singular works within the genre. Sorcery – the latest effort from Chilean director Christopher Murray – […]
ARROW Short Films (2024) Feat. Bad Acid & Meat Friend
Having built themselves as a name in curated features and impressive physical media releases, ARROW also have a premium streaming platform that is representative of what their brand is known for. An excellent thing they do is showcase short films from exciting new talents, many of which have previously played […]
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II (2024) Superior Splatterfest Still Misses the Punchline (Review)
Have you heard that joke levelled at films that take a funny, novel premise and stretch it out far beyond the life cycle of the gag that goes ‘This is why SNL sketches are five minutes long’? Few films have ever earned that jab more than Winnie the Pooh: Blood […]
The Valiant Ones (1975) Lesser King Hu saved from Absolute Obscurity (Review)
Opening a review of Eureka’s latest King Hu movie by touching upon film restoration probably isn’t the most winning of writing tactics, yet the Valiant Ones opens with a text card explaining how this print came to be. It’s relevant for us fans of movies from that corner of the […]
Furiosa: Mad Max (2024) Furthers the Max Max-Verse in Bold and Bombastic Ways (Review)
I had a chance to see Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) in theaters but for whatever reason couldn’t go. I watched it months later, and realized what a terrible mistake I had made. Fast forward about a decade and I was able to see Mad Max: Furiosa (2024) in theaters […]
Merry-Go-Round (1956) The Realism of Love from a Hungarian Classic (Review)
In the booklet accompanying Second Run’s new Blu-Ray release of Zoltán Fábri’s Merry-Go-Round (1956), author and Hungarian cinema specialist John Cunningham highlights a comment made in 1995 by the then French president Francois Mitterand. At the time, a group of filmmakers were working on a commemorative documentary for the centenary […]
Freaks vs the Reich (2021) Delightful High Concept Fantastical Adventure (Review)
After being shown around festivals (including Glasgow Frightfest in 2022), under its original title ‘Freaks Out’, Freaks vs the Reich has finally been released in the UK. Changing the title to something more eye-catching and B-movie like means the film is more likely to reach a wider audience. It can […]
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) But Do Expect a Lot from This Film (Review)
During a film that reckons with (and is a reckoning for) meme culture, there is an intrusive meme that springs to mind. Imagine a picture of a long-in-the-tooth Jean Luc-Godard with a mournful ‘Died 2022’ hovering over him. Now, next to it, imagine the poster of Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, with a celebratory ‘Born 2023’ above it. A […]
Shinobi Trilogy (1962 – 1963) – A fascinating precursor to Ninjas in cinema (Review)
Released by Daiei Motion Picture Company, Shinobi no Mono was an eight-film series adapted from Tomoyoshi Murayama’s series of novels. Set in 16th century Japan, the story follows outlaw hero and ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizō Ichikawa) in his fight against samurai warlords. Radiance Films have collected the first three films […]