X: The Man With X Ray Eyes (DVD release)
Share The name Roger Corman is synonymous with the type of hack, horror sci-fi B movies one could only previously associate with William Castle. Corman has produced and directed over 450 movies and is still working today, manufacturing such demented but vibrant dross like Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader, Sharkoctopus and Camel Spiders. His current...
Murder By Decree: DVD review
Share Retaining the dark and eerie style he established in 1974’s Black Christmas, Bob Clark’s Murder By Decree successfully blends fact and fiction as Sherlock Holmes and Watson go on the trail of Jack the Ripper in this atmospheric and entertaining yarn from 1979. Christopher Plummer and James Mason make an endearing Sherlock and Watson,...
Return To Witch Mountain: DVD review
Share After the mammoth box office flumping of Disney’s John Carter one cannot help but recall the studios earlier live action pictures from the 1970s and how different they were in comparison to the behemoths of today. Instead of John Carter and Pirates Of The Caribbean we had dainty little efforts like The Cat From...
The Cabin in the Woods: Film review
Share On first appearance The Cabin in the Woods looks like just another genre movie: a group of teenagers take a weekend break to a relative’s dilapidated shack in the forest only to find themselves menaced by a malevolent force in a blood soaked battle for survival. But don’t be fooled by the set up....
David Lynch’s “Crazy Clown Time”
Share David Lynch delivers a sprawling electronic first album laced with an edgy junkyard backdrop and nightmare undertones. Reminiscent of the soundtrack to one of his films, Crazy Clown Town is a cluttered trudge through a drunken dreamscape. With the sound of clanking tin cans and nightmare echoes haunting the background of a fantastic array...
Colorama: Live at Luigi’s
Share There are certain things you might expect to find in the basement of an Italian restaurant: boxes of packaged spaghetti, some olives, a terrified cat. One thing I did not expect to find was Welsh psychedelic folk group Colorama performing one of the most captivating indie gigs I have seen all year. Though the...
The Hoxton Mutation
Share Areas normally evolve stylistically according to the culture of its residents, but what’s fascinating about the changing face of East London’s Shoreditch and Hoxton over the past ten to twelve years lies with the sudden influx of artists. A once culturally starved cross section of shoe shops and warehouses was suddenly overrun by vagabond...
Double Take
Share Johan Grimonprez’s mock docudrama is an intriguing fusion of documentary and narrative drama. It merges live action and 50s stock footage to tell the fictitious account of how Alfred Hitchcock met his double while filming The Birds, and splices adverts and old news reel footage from the era. Through this, Grimonprez successfully conveys the...
The Ting Tings: Live at Kings College London
Share The Ting Tings stormed the stage at Kings College London this week to the point where I considered the venue too small for them. The dirty pop urchins were initially subdued while strumming their way through two cracking, rock openers from second album Sounds From Nowheresville. Katie White’s singing and movements were restrained to...
‘City Of The Living Dead’ by Lucio Fulci
Share Scare and gore maestro Lucio Fulci, director of The House By The Cemetery, delivers another spaghetti horror ‘classic’ with this zombie nasty fresh from a pre-CG era, where glorious latex and dubbed dialogue reigned. Taking place in New York City, the story follows a young girl who, after experiencing a premonition at a séance,...
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