Arrow’s new release of Lux Aternae, Gasper Noé’s 2019 fifty-minute film, on Blu-ray and also on Arrow Player and in June comes as his latest film, Vortex made immediately after Lux Aternae, hits UK cinemas and his films forming the centrepiece of the recent New French Extremity season at BFI […]
Movies & Documentaries
Luminous Procuress (1971): if an alien made a film about human sexuality, it would look like this (Review)
It’s quite an achievement to live your life as a work of art. Steven Arnold, whose film Luminous Procuress has been restored and reissued on Blu-Ray by Second Run, seems to have achieved it. His star and childhood friend, the performance artist Pandora, recalls his bedroom being decorated “like Louis […]
Wild Things (1998) 90s Hollywood or Hollyoaks Later? (Review)
It’s really strange coming to a piece of pop culture from your youth for the first time almost twenty-five years after its moment in the spotlight, but that’s exactly what I have done with Wild Things, released to Blu-ray by Arrow this week. I’m not entirely sure why this torrid, […]
Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist (2022) A Pilgrim’s Progress from Thatcher to Covid (Review)
Adding to the mounting list of films reflecting our collective experience of coronavirus in the last two years comes the bluntly titled Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist. Obviously, the thought of a film centred around COVID-19 is bound to turn off some audiences, so let me […]
Revolver (1973) Hard-edged, Pessimistic, Buddy Cop Crime Thriller (Review)
Current wisdom in the literary world of the thriller genre is that you must immediately hook your reader in with some violence right from the first page. After that, you can focus on character, setting etc, but the bloody stuff has to be placed right up front. Released to Blu-ray […]
Rhino (2022) A sombre if well-travelled Ukrainian crime drama (Review)
Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov intended to make his second feature film, following his 2011 debut Gamer, in 2014. However, due to the Maidan uprising protests that swept across Ukraine the filming was put on hold. This was further impacted by Russia’s annexation of Crimea (Sentsov’s birthplace) which actually resulted in […]
Dobermann (1997) 25th Anniversary Re-Release (Review)
The 90s was a wild decade. Outside of the mainstream, pop culture was going through an era where more meant more, an MO at its most frenzied with 1997’s Dobermann, directed by Jan Kounen and written by Joël Houssin. Both at the time and now, many equated this to the […]
Vampyr (1932) Pivotal Player in Vampire Horror History (Review)
Vampyr has been retrospectively hailed as a pinnacle moment in horror cinema history and with Eureka Entertainment’s new 2K release celebrating the film’s 90th anniversary, it is easy to see why. Vampyr, released in the same year as Universal’s Dracula, was Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s first sound film. After […]
Girls Nite Out (1982) Less Psycho Killer, More Psycho Filler (Review)
The late ’70s brought us a slew of teen slashers along with some of horror’s most iconic knife-wielding psychos – but by the time we get to this 1982 offering, it’s “less psycho killer, more psycho filler”. ‘Girls Nite Out’ (it hurts to spell ‘night’ like that) has now been […]
Wild Men (2021) Absurd Danish Comedy Drama with one plot too many (Cinema Review)
In cinemas tomorrow through Blue Finch Films is 2021’s Wild Men, the sophomore film from Thomas Daneskov – following his 2015 debut, the Elite. Rasmus Bjerg is Martin, and he’s had enough of modern life, so he decides to vanish from his native Denmark and live off the land as […]