Tag: Film
A Prestigious Bunch Lavished By British Independent Film Awards Nominations
The recent announcement of the British Independent Film Awards for the year of 2017 are dominated by breakthrough talent from the indie circuit. The big…
Writer-Director Dan Jenski Talks About His First Feature Film ADDicted
It occurred to me while watching ADDIcted, written and directed by Dan Jenski, that there are not many films these days that deal with the…
Vote Oscars: What Are The Greatest Of The 89 Best Picture Winners?
This needs little explaining. We’re heading towards the 90th Academy Awards, so a mass vote to establish a ranked list of the 89 Best Picture…
Review: Call Me By Your Name
A review by Bianca Garner “Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.” These words are profound and they sum up the power of…
GENRE BLAST: Things That Go Bump, III – Fantasy
They fracture time and space, reference our libraries of mythology and ethics, and take us far outside – or inside – of our hopes, our dreams and nightmares.
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Head Fuck
Yes, these are the horror hybrids that have you scratching your head if only you could locate it. From the sublime, the bonkers, to the…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Women Scorned
I’m not here, as a man, to endorse the poor treatment of women, only to scan over how it does form a strong source of…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Funny That
What do you mean there is nothing funny about a pregnant slasher? Or zombies in a classical literary setting? Or a kind of vampire The…
Frankenstein and The Cinematic Legacy of Man as Creator
It was a “wet ungenial summer” in Geneva when the 18-year-old daughter of a political philosopher and a feminist author suggested to her lover and…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Cursed Be
There’s nothing like a possession to disrupt a wedding, or indeed a congregation. Could be supernatural, could be a curse, likely unable to explain all…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – High Tension
This will not include the movie High Tension that was featured in last year’s Halloween 50, but delivers another 5 films in the same vein…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – I'm A Creep
Multiple personalities. Behaving inappropriately. Getting into someone else’s bed. Wielding an axe. Watching people from afar. Murderous tendencies. Kidnapping girls. What a bunch of creeps….
50 Films For Halloween '17 – There Will Be Blood
To be spilled, to be spattered, to be in excess, to be shimmering even in black and white, to leave an impossible stain on your…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Oh The Horror
Okay let’s shovel some of the shit out of the way, with a selection of five horror movies we love to hate. Awful writing, terrible…