by Martin | Sep 7, 2014 | movies, reviews
Frightfest has relocated from the Empire Leicester Square to the Vue Leicester Square, which seems to be a good thing. No more cramped Discovery Screens, we now have the run of numerous larger screens over several floors. And it’s even nearer Burger King, where...
by Martin | Aug 31, 2014 | movies, reviews
What’s that you say? Are Japanese films still as bonkers as they used to be? Why yes, and here is the proof. In Hitoshi Matsumoto’s beguiling oddity a furniture salesman (Nao Ômori) attempts to escape the drudgery of his existence (wife in coma, young son...
by Martin | Aug 30, 2014 | movies, reviews
Movies such as Umberto Lenzi’s Cannibal Ferox and Ruggero Deodato’s powerful Cannibal Holocaust really do seem to belong to a certain time and place – 70 and early 80’s Italy – so it was intriguing to see how Eli Roth of Cabin Fever and Hostel fame...
by Martin | Aug 25, 2014 | movies, reviews
Orson Welles’ Irish accent in The Lady From Shanghai is perfectly emblematic of the film itself: you can’t quite believe it yet you can’t quite disbelieve it either. Welles’ character, a sailor called Michael O’Hara, falls in love with...
by Martin | Aug 17, 2014 | movies, reviews
‘You do know this film is four hours and ten minutes long?’, asked the man doling out the tickets at the ICA. In fact, I knew about the four hours but not the ten minutes – but I said yes. He advised me to go to the toilet beforehand, as if I needed to be...
by Martin | Aug 3, 2014 | movies, reviews
Normally I unearth the cultural artefacts that interest me by dint of patient digging in obscure corners, but sometimes something comes barrelling out of the internet during an idle hour to catch me off guard rather like MMA fighter Andrei ‘The Pitbull’...
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