Film Review: Scary Stories
Drawing heavily on folklore and urban legend, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of children’s books written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell. The…
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Incoming: High Life
In deep space, Monte and his daughter Willow live together aboard a spacecraft, in complete isolation. A man whose strict self-discipline is a shield against desire, Monte fathered her against…
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Film Review: Arctic
Located at the northernmost point of Earth, the Arctic region is a desolate and unforgiving place. Spanning a number of countries, the climate is brutally cold and the landscape is…
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Film Review: Blue
Earth is rapidly approaching a point of no return. Humans have polluted the air, seas and raped the land for all its worth. Our rampant consumerism knows no bounds and…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Grand Duel
In the mid-1960s, a very strange phenomenon occurred in the American-centric world of Westerns. Whilst there was already a small industry of comedy variants being made in Europe, it wasn’t…
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Incoming: The Curse of La Llorona
In 1970s Los Angeles, La Llorona is stalking the night—and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own…
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Incoming: Von Lux
Von Lux is a stylish and absorbing modern portrait of a troubled pop star’s rise from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop superstardom. Von Lux is out…
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DVD Review: Fahrenheit 11/9
Michael Moore is one of those film-makers who you either love or hate. Whilst he’s obviously well-intentioned and has a knack of hitting the nail on the head, he also…
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DVD Review: Death Trench
Wars provide fertile backgrounds for genre cinema given the natural horror generated by the brutalities and atrocities of conflict. World War I was particularly arduous, with thousands upon thousands of…
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Blu-ray Review: Iron Sky: The Coming Race
In 2012, Timo Vuorensola, Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko brought us Iron Sky, the Nazi science-fiction comedy the world didn’t know it was missing. In 1945, Hitler escaped and has…
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