Blu-ray Review: PRODUCED BY GEORGE MARTIN Shines Spotlight On Musical Pioneer
The notion of a music producer is a relatively foreign one to most fans of popular music. While the rough understanding of how a Film Director gets their job done is old hat to even the most superficial of movie... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: Despite Misfires, Sniper Thriller TOWER BLOCK Hits Its Mark

Nothing good ever happens on the block. It might not be small-scale alien invasions of futuristic battles with scarred lady drug kingpins, but if you live on a block, something terrible is bound to happen to you. Consider the film... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE WILD GEESE Show What Real Men Are Made Of
The Wild Geese is absolutely ludicrous. Absurd, daft, antiquated nonsense. If you thought Sly, Arnie and Bruce kicking ass in The Expendables was beyond belief then you've never seen an aged Richard Burton fight off hoards of African militia.... More »
  

THE PACT Doesn't Quite Keep Its End Of The Bargain On UK Blu-Ray
Nicholas McCarthy's The Pact promises an intriguing mash-up of ghost story and serial killer flick, permeated by psychological troubles and murky secrets from the past. It focuses on the appealingly self-reliant Annie (Caity Lotz), beckoned home by her estranged sister... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012: WAKE IN FRIGHT Defies The Mold Of Rural Horrors
Everybody loves a good hillbilly horror film. Of course, the elephant in the room when anyone talks about the terrors of the uncivilized parts of the civilized world is John Boorman's Deliverance. In that film, a group of weekend warriors... More »
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Blu-ray Review: The Occasionally Beautiful, Utterly Empty SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
The instinct behind Snow White and the Huntsman is admirable, even if the execution ultimately falls flat: push the fairy tale into the realm of dark fantasy with a hint of political intrigue, with evil represented through the physical and... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: BYZANTIUM is Stuck Between Worlds
Two sisters try to lay low in Dublin while being pursued by long-coated inspectors. Having committed a rather kinetic and conspicuous murder in the opening sequence of the film, the Webb sisters are actually a pair of highland blood suckers, a 200 year... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: EVERYDAY And Its Lovely Minimalism
Michael Winterbottom is as varied a director as he is prolific. In just the last few years, he has directed a sweeping Indian epic (Trishna), a rollicking road trip comedy (The Trip), a globalization documentary (The Shock Doctrine), and... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: BAIT Proves There's Still Life In Killer Sharks
The pitch meeting for Bait must've been a doozy. A film featuring sharks stalking the aisles of a grocery store seems like a no brainer for genre film geeks, but I can imagine that it may have been tough to... More »
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TIFF 2012 Review: STORM SURFERS 3D Hangs A Perfect 10

There have been plenty of arguments made about the merits of our current 3D cinematic boom. While much of the talk focuses on ticket prices and the gimmick factor, one common discourse is that the experience of watching a film... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE SAPPHIRES Sings and Dances Its Way Through War and Racial Tension
The Sapphires tells the true story of an all-Aborigine girl group -- known in some quarters as Australia's answer to The Supremes -- who toured Vietnam to entertain troops during the war under the management of a washed-out, Irish would-be... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: SIGHTSEERS Delivers Black Hearted Laughs
If there is one thing the English north has a great deal of, it is space. Space and rocks. Both of which are put to extensive use by Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris (Steve Oram) as the new couple partakes... More »
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TIFF 2012 Review: SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Is Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts
Marty (Colin Farrell) has a problem. He has several, actually, but the only one he seems to notice is that he has completely and utterly failed to write the screenplay promised long ago to his frustrated agent. Titled Seven Psychopaths,... More »
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TIFF 2012 Review: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO Makes You Lean Forward and Listen
There is a key to unlocking Peter Strickland's dense and puzzling Berberian Sound Studio.  A line of dialogue that comes from the director of the film within the film.  A slip of the tongue.  In movies about sound, or more... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE AWAKENING is a Stirring Supernatural Tale
A disturbing fact around the number of dead in England at the turn of the twentieth century firstly appears before the quote and the visuals surrounding it bleed into the screen and the musical score intensifies. The setting has been described as... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: DREDD 3D Brings Mega-Violence to the Multiplex
Besides being a genuinely visceral (read: ridiculously gory) action movie which happens to balance its grim material with an effective streak of black humor, the biggest surprise is how thoroughly Dredd banishes all memories of the previous big screen adaptation.... More »
  

DVD Review: GYO: TOKYO FISH ATTACK! (Terror Cotta)
I very recently reviewed Gyo at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas and my opinion of the film hasn't changed, so here is that review with comments regarding the disc at the end.While I cannot honestly say that I am... More »
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FrightFest 2012 Review: HIDDEN IN THE WOODS Is Bloody Disgusting
The first (but certainly not the last) film to rub audiences the wrong way at this year's FrightFest was Hidden In The Woods, the latest effort from Chilean director Patricio Valladares. A relentlessly rough, misogynistic and amoral story of brutality... More »
  

FrightFest 2012 Review: COCKNEYS VS. ZOMBIES Is All Cheek, No Teeth
After the critical and commercial success of his big screen debut, Severance, it comes as no surprise that screenwriter James Moran would continue to introduce East London geezers into recognisable horror movie settings. Cockneys Vs. Zombies, however, proves as over-reliant... More »
  

FrightFest 2012 Review: THE SEASONING HOUSE Promises Atmosphere and Blood
Make-up and special effects maestro Paul Hyett (Citadel, The Woman In Black, everything from Neil Marshall) delivers an impressive directorial debut in this assured and atmospheric thriller that is only let down by a script that never capitalises on... More »
  
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