Film Review: Don’t Knock Twice
The two leads in Don’t Knock Twice, the new film from Caradog W. James, have had distinctly different entrance points into genre cinema. Katee Sackhoff has starred in commercial horrors…
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Film Review: Another Mother’s Son
In Christopher Menaul‘s period drama, Louisa [Jenny Seagrove], is a shopkeeper making the best of things on Nazi-occupied Jersey. Around her, boys in flat caps tear around the beautiful countryside…
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Film Review: Tickling Giants
There’s been a lot of coverage on screen about the Arab Spring, especially relating to Tunisia and Egypt, but little focus on the impact on the media in those countries.…
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Film Review: The Eyes of My Mother
Nurture versus nature is a ripe topic for plunder in genre cinema. Are some people born evil or are they just a product of the world around them? In Nicolas…
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Film Review: All This Panic
Let’s be honest, I knew nothing about teenage girls when I was a teen, let alone now. The moral panic around their sexualisation, drug use, underage drinking and ‘relentless’ sex…
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Film Review: The Olive Tree
Socially critical films fare best in times of economic strive and when the political right and nationalism are on the rise. We’re in the midst of one such period and…
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Film Review: Gleason
As anyone who has spent five days in a dark room at a documentary film festival will attest, it can be extremely gruelling experience. Whilst death is never far from…
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Film Review: Uncertain
Uncertain is a town with a, well, uncertain future. On the Texan boarder with Louisiana, it has a population which numbers a mere 94 disparate souls. It’s not a place…
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Film Review: Catfight
One of the major devices in action films is pitching two characters head-to-head. Man to Man. Mono e mono. Whether it’s Face/Off, Terminator 2, Universal Soldier, Batman vs Superman or…
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Film Review: The Love Witch
As any genre aficionado will attest, there’s something rather magical about finding a great low budget horror film. Whilst there’s a tendency towards gore nowadays, in the ‘60s and ‘70s…
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