The world premiere of Doctor Jekyll at Frightfest 2023 (which I was able to attend) began with director Joe Stephenson announcing he was about to go into a meeting to find out whether Hammer would still be producers on the movie. By the end of the screening, it was confirmed […]
Adaptation
Dune Part Two (2024) Powerful Blockbuster Storytelling that leaves you wanting more (Review)
The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster (2023) A Real Frankenstein for the 21st Century (Review)
Fans of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus have been clambering for a cinematic adaptation that isn’t another Victorian era verbatim remake. Bringing the OG gothic science-fiction horror firmly into the 21st century, interwoven with modern anxieties over race relations is The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster. […]
Madonna in Dick Tracy – Pop Screen 103
Naked Lunch (1991): a special edition big enough to feed anyone’s addiction (Review)
One of the great things about Arrow Video’s Blu-Ray special edition of David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch is that the package does the same thing as the film: it uses cutting-edge technology to immerse you in the stranger corners of a now-lost era. In Cronenberg’s case, that meant using Chris Walas’s […]
The Queen of Spades (1949) Faustian Vintage Supernatural horror with a Kick! (Review)
Edge of Sanity (1989) Jekyll, Hyde & Jack the Ripper in thinly-spread Erotic Horror (Review)
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) is one of the more regularly adapted and reimagined texts in science fiction literature, up there with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Whilst based on historical fact, conspiracy and theory, Jack the Ripper has enjoyed just as many takes throughout […]
The Strange One: Homoeroticism, Hazing and the Hays Code (Review)
S16E10 – The Nicholas Cage of Seagulls
Everyone’s favourite magnificently moustachioed news podcast returns with more strange tales from the realms of science, technology and entertainment, and this episode we’re starting with Huawei’s claims about their new operating system. In other news, we get our first look at the live-action version of Disney’s Mulan, legendary anime movie […]
