by Martin | Aug 31, 2019 | movies, reviews
Vernon Sewell’s career in British film started, weirdly enough, with a German film – Morgenrot (1933) a collaboration with Gustav Klimt’s illegitimate son (one of them) that premiered in front of Adolf Hitler. Apparently Hitler liked it. His next...
by Martin | Jul 21, 2019 | movies, reviews
THE NIGHTCOMERS In Nick Pinkerton’s positive Sight and Sound review of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (which I thought was shit by the way) I first encountered the phrase ‘gentrified horror’, a pejorative term for the kind of upmarket horror that...
by Martin | Jun 15, 2019 | movies, reviews
In 1965 Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors kicked off a series of ‘anthology’ horror films, mostly made by Amicus, of which Tales That Witness Madness (not made by Amicus) is often dismissed as a peculiarly ropey example, although its director Freddie...
by Martin | May 11, 2019 | movies, reviews
LOVE EXPRESS: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WALERIAN BOROWCZYK Kuba Mikurda’s documentary presents a pretty standard view of Borowczyk, which won’t be a problem for people who have no idea who Borowczyk is I suppose, and they are the vast majority of the...
by Martin | May 4, 2019 | movies, reviews
‘It won’t be easy’, warned writer-director Jagoda Szelc before her second film began, which was possibly an example of what she later referred to as her as her ‘dry humour’ – does anyone go to the Polish Film Festival expecting...
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