by Martin | May 27, 2020 | movies, reviews
In American monster movies of the early 50’s the monstrous generally had a scientific explanation – of course the science didn’t always stand up to close examination, but then it rarely got any. It was only required to generate panic – for the length...
by Martin | May 5, 2020 | movies, reviews
PRIVILEGE On this BFI DVD you get a couple of early short films from director Peter Watkins, one of which is 1961’s The Forgotten Faces, an urgent, authentic-seeming account of the 1956 people’s uprising in Hungary, filmed in Canterbury. Therein lies the...
by Martin | Apr 24, 2020 | movies, reviews
How often have I fantasized about the government forbidding me to leave the house so that I am finally compelled to watch all the DVDs I have accumulated over the years? Well never, since that would have been absurd, even for a fantasy. Nevertheless here we are. Or at...
by Martin | Apr 24, 2020 | movies, reviews
CAUTION: Contains unlicensed film theory Carol Clover’s Men Women and Chainsaws is most famous for drawing our attention to the figure of the Final Girl. Clover had been struck by the way that slasher films, aimed (as she saw it) at an audience of adolescent...
by Martin | Apr 14, 2020 | movies, reviews
CAUTION: Pre-lockdown content. May include allusions to leaving the house. Are there awards for audiences? Sometimes I feel that I deserve recognition for the efforts I make to catch one-off showings of alienating arthouse films – or at least, that they should pay me...
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