SPOILERS AHEAD The extended universe of Doctor Who has not been present on-screen since way back in 2011. In the initial burst of popularity the revival received in the 2000s, showrunner Russell T. Davies capitalised on this success by offering up two spin-off shows: the kid-friendly Sarah Jane Adventures, featuring […]
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Dont Hate Me Because I’m Gorgeous – Dragula’s Halfway to Halloween (2023)(Review)
The Boulet Brothers – Dracmorda Boulet and Swanthula Boulet – have been a mainstay of drag and nightlife. Their commitment to the horror and queer community is unwavering and their talents span producing, writing, reality TV, show running, comic books, music and hosting their prolific nightlife productions, spanning decades. Their […]
Illusion (Review) (Kinoteka Festival 2023)
The spectre of a missing person creates a different type of distress than death, because not knowing is a unique form of anguish. While there may be grief over the strong possibility that the missing person is dead, this grief is hard to process when the lack of certainty adds […]
Slasher: Ripper (Episode 1 & 2: Season 5)(Review)
Episode 1 – The Slaughterhouse & Episode 2 – The Painful Truth Comparisons to Fox’s American Horror Story are inevitable for Shudder/AMC’s Horror seasonal anthology series, Slasher. Each season presenting a new story and setting, and just like it’s contemporary, it brings with it a multitude of returning actors in different […]
Bone: When Adaptations Fail… When is it Okay to “Just Say No”?
Joe Millar from the Geek Show’s animation podcast ‘Dreaming Machine’ writes about the under-appreciated art of leaving things alone… Over the past year, I have read the entirety (over 1300 pages!) of Jeff Smith’s brilliant comic book series ‘Bone’ with my son. We both found the comic absolutely enthralling. The story has […]
The Pawnshop (Kinoteka 2023 Review)
The great documentarian Molly Dineen once said her preferred subject was “anything British that’s dying”. Łukasz Kowalski’s debut film The Pawnshop, presented as part of the 2023 Kinoteka festival of Polish cinema, shows that this formula works for anything Polish as well. It’s set almost entirely within the four walls […]
The Perpetrators (BFI Flare 2023) bite-sized cinematic rumination on depictions of queerness and villainy (Review)
The Perpetrators is a ghost story. This is likely obvious to anybody familiar with the film’s concept, with its lead character being a pre-pubescent phantom, but beyond that, this 14-minute short is a tale of the collective ghosts of a queer past, ones which still continue to haunt the LGBTQ+ […]
Raised By Wolves: What Wolfblood Means To Me
If you asked me to choose one TV show and one film that inspired me growing up, I would probably respond with Doctor Who and Coraline. I am a massive fan of both, and although they are vastly different from one another, they made their individual impact on me when […]
Aberrance (SXSW 2023)(Review)
Aberrance is a Mongolian psychological thriller by director Baatar Batsukh. Erkhmee and Selenge have retreated to a holiday home deep in the wilderness, keen to escape their lives in the city. Erkhmee seems determined to provide some peace and quiet for Selenge, but this seems at odds with the increasingly […]
My Drywall Cocoon (SXSW 2023)(Review)
The only Brazilian feature in competition at this year’s SXSW, My Drywall Cocoon has a director who may not be familiar to English-language audiences, albeit largely due to the timidity of our distributors. Caroline Fioratti’s debut feature Meus 15 Anos was a huge crowd-pleaser in Brazil, but crowd-pleasers tend not […]