Blu-Ray Review – Channel Zero: Candle Cove
As regular as clockwork, every few years there’s an outcry about the negative effect television and/or films is having on children. If it’s not that, then it’s video games. It…
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Album Review: Trupa Trupa – Jolly New Songs
Trupa Trupa’s macabre poetic outlook has much in common with contemporary exponents of psychogeography, such as one Iain Sinclair, whose wanderings around London’s orbital networks elicit a meandering prose that…
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Incoming: Call Me By Your Name
A sudden and powerful romance blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliff-side mansion. Call Me By Your Name is in cinemas from Friday.
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Celluloid Screams Review: The Endless
As a genre film fan, one of the biggest frustrations is the limited access we have to the full array of films being (often) lovingly created. Cinemas are often full…
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Blu-Ray Review: Torture Garden
Two of the greatest authors of terror, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, revelled in the medium of short stories. The format lends itself to the horror genre, allowing directors…
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Album Review : John Carpenter’s ‘Anthology : 1974 -1998
I believe we’ve entered the John Carpenter renaissance. Five years ago the man was on the bitter end of a film career that had seen better days. To those in…
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LIVE: THE FALL – WAKEFIELD – 20/10/17
Not just because it’s my home town, The Fall in Wakefield has always been special. I saw them here for the first time back in 1983 (For the record: First…
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Incoming: Phantom Thread
A new Paul Thomas Anderson film is always an event and the first trailer for Phantom Thread is finally here: Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Villainess
The lone female assassin motif has produced some memorable cinematic performances. Whether it’s Uma Thurman in Kill Bill 1&2, Anne Parillaud as Nikita or Meiko Kaji in Lady Snowblood, there’s…
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Celluloid Screams Review: Tag
There are few, if any, Asian film directors with a vision as distinctive and unique as Sion Sono. Unfortunately, this leads to a varying quality of output. For every Love…
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