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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Fantastic Fest Review: Everyone Will Burn
Children are scary. Small versions of adult people who seem to have total confidence in their approach of constantly asking questions. They seem to know too much. They probably do.…
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Film Review: My Imaginary Country
Like much of South America, Chile has had a difficult, complicated and rather dark history. It’s also a rich and vibrant country. Evidence of settlements date back over 10,000 years,…
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Fantastic Fest Review: A Wounded Fawn
You may never have heard of The Erinyes, but it’s likely that you know them by another name – The Furies. While Greek mythology is full of disturbing and alarming…
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Blu-Ray Review: A Fugitive from the Past
The golden age of Japanese cinema was during the 1950s. Although the post-occupation period was difficult for ordinary people, it proved to be a successful time for filmmakers. The next…
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Fantastic Fest Review: Missing
Everyone deals with grief in their own way. Some people disappear into their own heads, withdrawing from life and shutting everyone out. Others look for ways to deaden the pain,…
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Film Review: When the Screaming Starts
There was a point in time when you couldn’t go on Netflix for tripping over a true crime series or film. Much of the media landscape was the same, from…
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Film Review: Control
There are few things more frightening than being trapped. To have your freedom taken away. Confined and constrained. We are, after all, animals. Our natural habitat is roaming free. Especially…
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Blu-Ray Review – Police Story 3: Supercop
Before becoming the action-comedy sidekick of choice in Hollywood, Jackie Chan was arguably the leading light in Hong Kong martial arts cinema. Following Bruce Lee’s tragic death, producers tried to…
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Film Review: It Is in Us All
Since his breakthrough role playing opposite Florence Pugh in William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth, Cosmo Jarvis has rapidly become one of the more familiar leading men in British independent cinema. He’s…
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