by Martin | Jan 2, 2025 | movies, reviews
BLINK TWICE Waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) and her friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) accept an invite to the private island of tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum), where everybody seems to be having a fantastic time – or are they? Well, maybe not the women, who have...
by Martin | Nov 10, 2024 | movies, reviews
THE SUBSTANCE Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is preposterous, which makes perfect sense. We’re in the realm of showbiz, after all. Demi Moore is formidable as ‘Elizabeth Sparkle’, a fading star now fronting an aerobics show who is told by...
by Martin | Oct 16, 2024 | movies, reviews
LONGLEGS Longlegs has been subject to a lot of hype claiming that it is the scariest film of the year or decade or maybe even century, and it certainly maintains a tense and creepy atmosphere throughout, but the scariest moment comes before the credits, where the...
by Martin | Sep 14, 2024 | movies, reviews
Not content with having a horror film festival, Romford now has a film festival – which also features a lot of horror. I turned up for just the one offering, Chad Ferrin’s Unspeakable: Beyond The Wall of Sleep. Ferrin is a prolific director, and no doubt too...
by Martin | Aug 25, 2024 | movies, reviews
My introduction to Lindsay Anderson was being shown the 1968 film If…. in (judiciously edited) half hour portions at secondary school in the 70’s in a lesson called ‘Design for Living’, a rather random class which was used to dispense whatever...
by Martin | May 19, 2024 | movies, reviews
Soon every town in the country will have its own horror film festival, which I suppose is no bad thing, although I could hardly keep up when it was just Frightfest. I saw one film that escaped me at Frightfest (Austin Jennings’ Eight Eyes) in late January at...
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