FIlm Review
Blu-ray Review: The Fog
Whether it’s sitting around a camp fire or snuggled-up in front of a fireplace on a dark and stormy night, there’s nothing quite like a ghost story to send a shiver down your spine and keep you awake at night. Seaside towns have their own special kind of eerie atmosphere and often a dark and …
Film Review: Science Fair
The world is a complete an utter mess. As we face a race against time to save our planet from its premature demise, politicians are more interested in money, power and wars than doing anything productive to help. Funding in science, research and development is down. We need ideas. We need a new direction and …
Film Review: Touch Me Not
The Berlinale (or the Berlin International Film Festival, to give it its proper title) is one of the highlights of the European film calendar. It’s absolutely huge, boasting the biggest public attendance of any film festival in the world. Its crown jewel is the Golden Bear, and when it comes to the big prize the …
LFF Review: Bad Reputation
Whilst it’s only now that women are starting to become widely respected as ‘rock’ musicians, imagine how bad it was forty years ago? Even today, is not out of the ordinary for female band members to receive derogatory comments about playing their instrument or asked questions which men would never be expected to answer. So, …
LFF Review: Chained for Life
Hollywood has never exactly been what you’d call an equal opportunities employer. It never fails to amaze me how everyone from the ‘ugly’ character upwards in a big budget film normally looks like a model. A normal weight in the real world seems to be considered practically obese by some Studios. Having a facial disfigurement …
Blu-Ray Review: Night of the Creeps
Some people look to the stars with hope, others with fear. The excitement caused by the ‘Space Race’, which culminated with the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969, inspired a new wave of science fiction writing and film-making. This continued until the end of the Cold War. During the ‘80s horror boom, this fascination transformed …
Film Review: Kusama – Infinity
Despite her art regularly selling for over a million dollars, and her exhibitions are some of the most popular in the world, Yayoi Kusama is far from being a household name. Whilst she was heavily involved and extremely influential in the 1960s New York avant-garde scene, compared to some of her male contemporaries Yayoi has …
Film Review: Columbus
Following in the footsteps of a famous parent can be an extremely difficult thing to do. Whist they may receive adulation from people who have never met them, to the person involved they are simply ‘mum’ or ‘dad’. The pressure can be vast, both from within the family unit and externally from wider society. In …
DVD Review: Eye of the Needle
As well as being very personable and rather charming, Donald Sutherland is a consistently impressive actor. He’s now 83 and has been going strong since the 1960s. It’s mind-blowing to think that he’s never even been nominated for an Oscar (although the Academy have awarded him an honorary gong). Given his performances in films such …
Film Review: Anchor and Hope
All too often, the British film industry finds itself mired in cliché and nostalgia. There seems to be an unrelenting thirst for ropey gangster movies, dreadful sub-Inbetweeners comedies starring people who are old enough to know better and period pieces aimed squarely at the ‘grey pound’. We’ve thankfully seen some flickers of life of late …