by Martin | Mar 25, 2017 | movies, reviews
A slice of Hollywood Eurogothic from Gore Pirates of the Caribbean Verbinski, this begins quite promisingly in a vein of deadpan camp – a mode which serves it well enough until it goes (almost literally) down the toilet. Lockhart (Dane DeHaan), a young, reptilian Wall...
by Martin | Mar 18, 2017 | movies, reviews
Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival brings to our attention something about contact with alien life forms that to my knowledge hasn’t been thoroughly explored up until now – how boring it might be. That’s not to say that the film itself is boring – although...
by Martin | Mar 11, 2017 | movies, reviews
Ah, Valentine’s Day – my favourite feast day, since my single status means I don’t have to observe it. Nevertheless I was moved to recognise it to the extent of braving rail replacement services to get to the Barbican, where film programmer Josh Saco (aka...
by Martin | Mar 4, 2017 | movies, reviews
This comes from a cheap and pretty random box set of ‘horror’ DVD’s I got as a Secret Santa present – thanks, Lorraine! – so there’s no frills here, no trailer or ‘Making Of’: they barely manage to give you the film itself....
by Martin | Feb 18, 2017 | movies, reviews
THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER This is out on DVD now, I discovered it in Sainsbury’s, the cast staring balefully out at me from the cover and seeming to condemn me for my lack of professionalism in not getting round to review this back in September 2016, when...
by Martin | Jan 29, 2017 | movies, reviews
EYES OF MY MOTHER This curious little black-and-white number, from America, has received some acclaim but to these eyes was not quite curious enough. It’s the story of Francisca, who at the start of the film is a young girl leading an idyllic existence in a...
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