Blu-Ray Review: Champion
Boxing is one sport which punches well above its weight when it comes to popularity and media attention. Indeed, the amount of money to be made, primarily for uneducated young…
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Tallinn Black Nights Review: On Our Way
Making the transition from in front to behind the camera can be a tough journey. The abilities needed to act have little in common with those to direct, so in…
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Film Review: Silent Night
Christmas is a time for families to come together. To put aside their differences and to enjoy the festive season in a spirit of love and understanding. Gathered round an…
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Film Review: Night Raiders
It says something about the natural cynicism of our species that dystopian visions have historically been, and still are, decidedly popular. Many writers agree that we’ll end up wiping ourselves…
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Film Review: Red Snow
Given the antics of someone like Vlad the Impaler, it seems strange that vampires have become sexy. Indeed, it’s hard to pin an exact date when these blood-thirsty abominable creatures…
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Film Review: Celts
When considering the human cost of war, most of the emphasis is normally placed on those soldiers fighting in, or civilians directly affected by, them. Whilst these impacts might be…
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Film Review: There is No Evil
The use of the death penalty remains controversial, to say the least. While in most developed countries, but tellingly not all of the United States of America, it has been…
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IDFA Review: Children of the Mist
In the developed world, we live in extremely privileged and (relatively) stable times. Despite the events of the last couple of years, we’re still experiencing the best standards of living…
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Blu-ray Review: Mill of the Stone Women
When you see programmes charting the history of horror cinema, all too often they concentrate almost exclusively on films emanating from the English-speaking world. Take Italy, for instance. A country…
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Blu-Ray Review: Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Taking their influences from both France and the United States, Italian Poliziotteschi films of the 1960s and 1970s mix hard-boiled crime-fighting with a lot of running and chasing. Reacting to…
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