Film Archives - Page 13 of 334

News: EWAH and the Vision Of Paradise’s Emma Waters presents special showings of film ‘Finding Paradise’ with a soundtrack from the band’s album ‘The Warning Birds’.

EWAH and the Vision of Paradise (EVoP) released a magnificent album ‘The Warning Birds’ last year (see my 9.2/10 review here) – an album that I described as being a palimpsest for…

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Film Review: Inu-Oh

It’s really hard to understand Japanese society’s relationship with Manga and anime from the outside. While, in the West, animation is largely reserved for Disney and similar children’s movies, in…

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Fantastic Fest Review: Unidentified Objects

There’s something inherently American about a road movie. It probably has something to do with the distance between cities and a national obsession with the automobile. The same can be…

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Fantastic Fest Review: Lynch/Oz

It may not have seemed likely at the time, but when The Wizard of Oz was introduced to the world in 1939 it would go on to form one of…

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Blu-Ray Review: Hearts and Minds

The Vietnam War was one of the lowest points in post-war US history, and there is stiff competition for that title. The USSR and America spent almost twenty years waging…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Great Dictator

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Today, if you watch any of the rallies Hitler addressed it’s easy to see how dangerous he was or would become. At the same time,…

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Fantastic Fest Review: Attachment

When we talk about mythology, it’s usually around the ancient Greeks or Romans. However, while much of it might have disappeared from modern religions, the major ones have a much…

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Fantastic Fest Review: A Life on the Farm

There was a time, not too long ago, when farming was seen as a vocation where good honest toil, a bit of luck, and fair weather would set a man…

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Fantastic Fest Review: Country Gold

The country music scene is, in a way, a microcosm of the wider industry, but is so distinct it’s basically a separate entity. While it originated in the 1920s from…

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Fantastic Fest Review: Mister Organ

As the saying goes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. This is what happens in the best documentaries. Those films which start out as one thing and suddenly morph into…

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