Frightfest 2016 Review – Karaoke Crazies (2015)
Kim Sang-Chan’s debut feature film Karaoke Crazies is a charmingly off-beat drama about a failing karaoke bar and the band...
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DVD Review – Reckless (2015)
Patrick Wilson is one of those guys who deserves the CV of a Hollywood heavy-weight but is often found in...
Frightfest Glasgow 2016 Review – The Other Side Of The Door
From Johannes Roberts comes The Other Side of the Door, a supernatural horror film that plays out like Pet Cemetery...
GYFF 2016 Review – The Witch (2015)
Robert Eggers debut feature as writer/director, The Witch, is the kind of abstract horror feature that can either flounder in...
Film Review – Partisan (2015)
Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan, co-written with Sarah Cyngler, was one of the most intriguing and well-executed features of Sundance 2015. A...
DVD Review – Sinister 2 (2015)
Ciaran Foy’s Sinister 2, the follow up to Scott Derickson and C. Robert Cargill’s supernatural terror tale of 2012, is...
DVD Review – Listen To Me Marlon (2015)
Debatably the most intimate documentary biopic ever conceived, Listen to Me, Marlon is a genuine and intimate exploration of the...
Film Review – Mississippi Grind (2015)
Mississippi Grind, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, tells the story of Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn), a talented but debt...
DVD Review – Big Game (2015)
Jalmari Helander’s Big Game is a kind of spiritual sequel (or prequel) to his 2010 Christmas horror adventure film Rare...
Film Review – A Walk In The Woods (2015)
Nick Nolte leans past a rotund mountain beauty to help her prise her underwear from the tumbler of a washing...
Film4 Frightfest 2015 Review – Madman (1982)
Joe Giannone’s 1982 film Madman arrived amidst the early 80’s boom in slasher pictures. John Carpenter’s Halloween popularised the “Teens...
Film Review – The Dance Of Reality (2014)
Reviewing a film like Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality (La Danza de la Realidad) is a tricky thing. Rarely...
Film Review – The Best Of Enemies (2015)
Two of American political history’s most arresting conservationists, will forever be heavy weight republican William F. Buckley and lizard-tongued liberal...
EIFF 2015 Review – Cop Car (2015)
One of the most enjoyable experiences offered at Sundance 2015 now Edinburgh, was Jon Watts’ Cop Car, co-written with Robot...