For a young horror director to the protege of a more seasoned hand, few could have better fortune than Michele Soavi, who sat under the learning tree of Dario Argento. Not only that, he had his directorial debut produced by another substantial Italian genre legend, Joe D’Amato. Soavi exploded out […]
Dario Argento
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Curling: grips in ways a standard Hollywood thriller can’t manage (Review)
So do Second Run have some kind of insider knowledge, or…? Their first all-new release of 2020 (after a welcome Blu-Ray upgrade for Valerie and Her Week of Wonders) is Denis Côté’s Curling, a spare, paranoid film about self-isolation, home-schooling and precarious minimum-wage jobs. A rare chance for British audiences […]
Cinema Eclectica 204 – The ADR Doggies Bite Back
Liberated from Hull, Graham settles in with Rob for a preview of perhaps the strangest sports movie ever made – Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s “Diamantino”, with its gene-tampering weirdness, lesbian drone pilots and floof bois. It’s not the last dog cameo on the show, but it’s surely the best. […]