‘The Hunt’ Review: Hunting Controversy
In satirising an entire political debate, it is important to have a point. This is the point of contention with most provocative films. What is...
Author: Paul Salt
‘Bad Boys For Life’ Review: The Franchise Continues to Ride, Refuses to Die
They definitely should have saved the title for the inevitable fourth one. Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) return when an old...
‘The Invisible Man’ Review: It’s All About What You Don’t See
The classic universal horror monsters, most adapted from Victorian Novels, are all viable for updates. The fears that they represent, of the unknown, of the...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Macbeth (1992)
What could be better than a Welsh television adaptation of the Scottish play put to screen by an insane Russian animation studio. In one of...
The Scottish Film – Ep #11 – Men of Respect (1991)
You come to us? On this, the day of our daughter’s wedding, to ask a favour? Well if it involves watching an iffy attempt to...
The Scottish Film – Ep #10 – Verdi’s Macbeth (1987)
Paul and Katy voyage even further into the high arts with Claude D’Anna’s French film of Verdi’s Opera of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. They discuss the music,...
The Scottish Film – Ep #9 – BBC Television Shakespeare Macbeth (1983)
Paul and Katy are starting to a get a case of the Mondays when it comes to the Bard’s immortal tail of bloody ambition and...
The Scottish Film – Ep #8 – Hungarian Macbeth (1982)
Üdvözlet! Get that Lángos ready, because Paul and Katy are heading to Hungary for Béla Tarr’s 80s television adaptation of Macbeth. Filmed in just two shots,...
The Scottish Film – Ep #7 – RSC Macbeth (1979)
Life might be a poor player, but Ian Mckellan and Judi Dench aren’t! Paul and Katy enjoy two masters of the form strutting their hour...
Michele Olivieri Interview: Short Horror Film Director Talks The Game of the Clock!
The Game of the Clock stood out at the London Frightfest short film program last year as a tight, tense and terse horror film that...