by Martin | Sep 23, 2018 | movies, reviews
THE CLEANING LADY Frightfest is now ‘owned’ by Arrow Video, which makes sense. The only difference I could see was that there were a lot of free DVD’s lying around, which I certainly wasn’t complaining about (I’ll save that for when I...
by Martin | Sep 9, 2018 | movies, reviews
MIRROR MIRROR ‘Long may it continue’, I said earlier in the year about the BFI’s ‘Cult’ strand. Well now it has ended (though replaced by something very similar called Terror Vision) but at least its last showing, curated by feminist film...
by Martin | Aug 5, 2018 | movies, reviews
In theory it ought to be possible to respond to a film without taking into account to the critical reaction to it, but once you are aware of that reaction and have seen it pasted on the sides of buses, there’s not much you can do about that: it’s already...
by Martin | Jul 8, 2018 | movies, reviews
A CAT IN THE BRAIN It may seem an odd thing to say of a film called A Cat In The Brain but – inured as I am to disappointment in such matters (almost counting on it, you might say) – the last thing I expected to see in it was a cat clawing at...
by Martin | Jun 10, 2018 | movies, reviews
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA (1976) ‘An insult to any audience’ concludes the review of Lewis John Carlino’s film The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (hereafter referred to as Sailor) in my damaged-in-transit...
by Martin | May 7, 2018 | movies, reviews
I like to think that there is no such thing as a bad film. Philosophically speaking, there is no such thing as a film at all, since films only ‘really’ exist in the watching of them, and this is done by people, and no two people will experience precisely...
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