‘Gerald’s Game’ Will Chain You Up and Mess With Your Mind
Stephen King adaptations seem to be all the rage these days. Then again, perhaps they always have been. And now Netflix are getting in on...
Month: September 2017
‘Mother!’ Review: Aronofsky’s Latest Confounds and Compells
Mother! is the new film by the director of Black Swan. For most of the film’s runtime that felt like Darren Aronofsky’s most pertinent credit....
From the London Film Festival: ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ Review
Late one night in Tunisia, a girl leaves a party with a man. Sometime later the girl is raped by two police officers whilst the...
‘Dolores Claiborne’: The Hidden Gem of Stephen King Adaptations?
Kathy Bates appeared in two Stephen King adaptations in the early nineties and although she won her Oscar for Misery, she insists that her preferred...
From the London Film Festival: ‘Let the Corpses Tan’
Let the Corpses Tan is An utterly bizarre psychosexual thriller from the unique minds of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the writer-director team behind the...
From the London Film Festival: ‘Promised Land’
A documentary film crew buy Elvis’s old Rolls Royce and drive it around the United States of America. Along the way they pickup celebrity passengers...
Top 5 Bond Inspired Comedies, Ashley’s Pick
With Kingsman : The Golden Circle coming out this weekend, James Bond inspired films and television have been on my mind, particularly those that satirize...
Cinema Bushido – Way of the Black Dragon (1979)
This is NOT, I repeat NOT ‘The Clones Cast’! This is Lee and Matthew getting loose, and getting right – talking about Lee’s real-life dad...
‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ Lacks the Charm of the Original
There’s always something a little concerning about Matthew Vaughn’s films. He’s directed some wonderful films: Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, even the first Kingsman! But there’s...
From the London Film Festival: ‘Ingrid Goes West’ Review
Ingrid Goes West is a darkly funny and genuinely sad film. Aubrey Plaza plays Ingrid, a woman who doesn’t know what’s wrong with her or...