by Martin | Jan 1, 2018 | movies, reviews, Uncategorized
BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 Violence. It can leave a nasty taste in the mouth, and perhaps it ought to. Brawl In Cell Block 99 certainly left a nasty taste in my mouth, but I’m almost convinced that this was intentional. Not intentional as regards just my mouth of...
by Martin | Aug 7, 2016 | movies, reviews, Uncategorized
In the prologue to this plot-free Italian zombie opus, also known as The Nights of Terror, a professor raises the dead from an Etruscan tomb just in time for the arrival of a group of privileged merry-makers down for a weekend at the adjoining country house. With one...
by Martin | Sep 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Back in the mid-eighties Alan Parker used Peter Greenaway’s films as an example of the British film industry’s failure to come up with commercially viable product, opting for self-indulgent artiness instead. I can’t remember what Greenaway’s...
by Martin | Sep 21, 2014 | movies, reviews, Uncategorized
OPEN WINDOWS In an age when you can watch films on your phone, here’s another novelty – going to the cinema to see a film whose action takes place entirely on someone’s laptop screen. I think it did, anyway – I was frankly a little befuddled by the end....
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