Widescreen Weekend is an annual event at Bradford’s Science and Media Museum. As the name suggests, it’s a festival featuring films in various widescreen formats, from 70mm to digital but with a focus on "films on film" along with various talks throughout the weekend. This year’s event starts on Thursday 11 October with the opening … Continue reading Widescreen Weekend 2018 Preview – Bradford Science and Media Museum
I was over in Manchester at Grimmfest recently and got the chance to do a short interview with Barbara Crampton. She is best known for her roles in cult classics like Re-Animator, From Beyond, Chopping Mall, Body Double and many others. More recently she has had a career resurgence in indie horror flicks like Beyond … Continue reading Interview with Barbara Crampton
Hereditary is the big horror movie of the year, complete with five-star reviews and loads of buzz. I’m not sure of that’s a good thing or a bad thing: reviews that good can be hard to live up to. It’s the debut film of Ari Aster, who had previously done some shorts at AFI, which … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Hereditary
The Mind of Mr. Soames is odd film that Amicus (Hammer's big competitor) made at the end of '60s. It would also be Terence Stamp's final film before his "wilderness" years in Europe, where he made stuff like the (impossible to find in English) Arthur Rimbaud biopic A Season in Hell, where Stamp plays the poet... … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – The Mind of Mr. Soames
Paris nous appartient is Jacques Rivette’s first film, and of the very first French New Wave films. It came out after Claude Chabrol's early films, and the debuts of Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Rivette had started his before either of them, however. It’s an odd, almost film noir, set-up. A Spanish activist, Juan, dies; … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Paris nous appartient
