What goes around comes around in Never Have I Ever‘s tale of domestic drama and drinking games. Sam (Andrew Lee Potts), is a struggling screen writer with a drinking habit who misses his deadlines and is low on cash. His reputation around town precedes him, and his struggles to get […]
Movies & Documentaries
Nothing But The Best (1964) A Blackly Satirical Second Cousin of the Kitchen Sink Movie (Review)
Released on Blu-ray by Studio Canal’s Vintage Classics label this week is Nothing But the Best, a rather undervalued and little seen black comedy from 1964 that stars Alan Bates. An adaptation by Frederic Raphael of a short story by American mystery writer Stanley Ellin, the film is directed by […]
Members Club (Frightfest 2024) Review
Genre Film Festivals are a wide parish, and some movies appear at certain events to play the field – either to find the highest bidder to launch something onto the unsuspecting masses, or they’ve already got distribution and want to build up hype before their eventual release. Other titles aren’t […]
An Taibhse – The Ghost (Frightfest 2024) Review
The boom surrounding the Irish language has been tripping off the tongue of many audiences and critics alike for the past few years, but there’s rarely been a period for its revival like this week. The Quiet Girl and Arracht have been Gaelic triumphs for the nation over the past half-decade, and since […]
Azrael: Angel of Death (Frightfest 2024) Review
Silence is golden in horror right now. From the whole concept of A Quiet Place to a sequence in Alien: Romulus that thrives on sound levels rising no higher than a heartbeat, films are throwing themselves down a gauntlet in keeping their characters schtum to milk tension. E. L. Katz’s post-Rapture survival horror Azrael: Angel […]
Cadejo Blanco (2021) Twisted Coming of Age Tale set in Gangland Guatemala (Review)
A ‘cadejo’ is a mythic creature in Central American folklore that refers to a dog-like creature that comes in two forms; either the white (blanco) cadejo that protects humans from danger and the black (negro) cadejo that attacks them. This Guatemalan crime drama from American writer/director Justin Lerner clearly posits […]
Generation Terror (Frightfest 2024) Review
Horror is the subject of much scrutiny and, ironically, most of that comes from horror fans themselves, for as the adage goes, “No one hates wrestling more than wrestling fans”. A key aspect of this scrutiny involves breaking horror into decades, and enough sub-genres to make metal music green with […]
7 Keys (Frightfest 2024) Review
Lena doesn’t want to go home. She wants to run away from the troubles of her real life and recapture all the fun she’s missed out on. Using Daniel’s keys, the pair go on the ultimate tour of London – a wild weekend of getting to know each other intimately […]
Mermaid Legend (1984)(Frightfest 2024) Review
Come the late ’60s the Japanese film industry was floundering, hurt by the rise in popularity of television and the constant influx of Hollywood movies to satisfy an ever present American contingent. Japanese films seemed tired and out of ideas, so budgets were cut and the rise of exploitation cinema […]
The Last Voyage of The Demeter (Frightfest 2024) Review
I feel like I’ve been chasing The Last Voyage of the Demeter for the past year, as I heard of it last summer when it played in some US cinemas and thought it sounded really interesting. I then waited for the UK release – which got cancelled, and conceded it […]