Frightfest 2020 Short Horror Showcase 1 Review: Gruesome Shorts for ‘orrible Girls and Boys!
Bark (dir. Ryan Irving) A tree in a park witnesses people enjoying bushes, dogs and some slasher movie antics. It’s a comedy film in which...
Month: August 2020
‘Tenet’ Review: Will you want to understand it?
A CIA agent (John David Washington) undertakes a dangerous mission to uncover the truth behind a terrifying technology that threatens the existence of the human...
The Scottish Film – Ep #20 – Macbeth (2018)
We did it! We reviewed every cinematic adaptation we could reasonably get our hands on without influence over time or the Thai authorities. We finish...
‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (1968) Holds Up, Despite Polanski – Retro Review
It always upsets me when I see people my age disparaging The Beatles. I grew up on my parents’ music, and I held very narrow...
The Legend of Crazy Joe: Lean on Me (1989) – Retro Review
If you asked me to sing the school song of any school I actually attended, I would be at a total loss. But if you...
The Way We Were (1973), Objectivity, and What Makes a Masterpiece — Retro Review
There’s a really unfortunate New York Post piece from 2015 that posits that women are incapable of understanding Goodfellas because we’re incapable of understanding the...
The Scottish Film – Ep #19 – Veeram (2016)
When you take Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy and a North Indian folk tale and mix them all together in three languages at once and look at...
‘Proxima’ Review: To the Stars and Away from Home
It’s only a minor spoiler to reveal that Alice Winocour’s new film ends with the launch of a space shuttle. Early on it becomes clear...
The Genre-Bending Sincere Silliness of ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ (1985) – Retro Review
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure lives rent-free in my brain. It’s a movie of images before it’s a movie of substance, but is substance really necessary when...
The Scottish Film – Ep #18 – Macbeth (2015)
Paul and Katy fail to find a banned Thai film and so have to settle for perhaps the greatest cinematic adaptation ever made! A film...