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...
by Martin | Apr 1, 2024 | movies, reviews
A PRINCE Pierre Creton’s film featured in both John Waters’ top ten and Sight and Sound’s top 50, so it should have been made for me – but there’s no accounting for taste. All I can say is that it certainly gives you the feeling that...
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