EIFF 2024 Review: The Radleys – “A genuinely enjoyable entry in the vampire genre.”
Directed by Euros Lyn Starring Kelly MacDonald, Damian Lewis, Harry Baxendale, Jay Lycurgo, Bo Bragason, Shaun Parkes I was keen to see...
Read MoreEIFF 2024 Review: The Substance – “A remarkable, highly unusual, full-throttle, OTT but in the best way horror”
Directed by Coralie Fargeat Starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid This was another of the revived Midnight Madness strand of...
Read MoreReview: Blink Twice is an homage to Boogie Nights
Blink Twice starts with a character scrolling their feed on the toilet, watching an apology video made by a billionaire, immediately...
Read MoreEdinburgh International Film Festival 2024 – Competition Shorts
I always find the live action and the animated short film section of the festival to be a fascinating one. The short work is often where...
Read MoreWhat’s New in Home Video & Pop Culture – August 20th, 2024 – The Last Unicorn and Bloody Disgusting Steelbooks
Well, it’s kind of both a small week and a big week this week. But it’s all Steelbooks! There aren’t a ton of releases out this week...
Read MoreEdinburgh International Film Festival 2024 Review: Mongrel – “slowly effective and powerful”
Directed by Wei Liang Chiang and You Qiao Yin Starring Atchara Suwan, Hong Yu-hong, Kuo Shu-wei, Lu Yi-ching, Wanlop Rungkumjad This...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Sting – “skittering stinging fun”
An aracno-horror written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, with a creature designed by WETA, and starring Furiosa’s Ayla Browne, Sting...
Read MoreEdinburgh International Film Festival 2024 Review: Oddity – “A horror fan’s delight of murder, revenge and the supernatural”
Directed by Damian McCarthy Starring Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Tadhg Murphy, Steve Wall, Jonathan French My first screening of this...
Read MoreWhat’s New in Home Video & Pop Culture – August 13th, 2024 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, If, The Bikeriders, The First Omen, Ted Lasso, Demons and more
Now this is a week that has a little bit of everything! We’ve got major theatrical releases, classic cult films on 4K Ultra HD, some...
Read MoreBorderlands is unlike other video game movies (in a good way).
About halfway through Borderlands, director Eli Roth holds the camera on Jamie Lee Curtis’s natural face, while her character, (Dr...
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