Sunday, 1 June 2025

Piglet (NEW WAVE OF THE BRITISH FANTASTIC FILM UK 2025: Dir Andrea M. Catinella)

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On first glance you'd be mistaken for thinking that Piglet was yet another entry in those 'Poohniverse' - or 'Twisted Child...
Thursday, 8 May 2025

Birdeater (Australia 2023: Dir Jack Clark, Jim Weir)

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The mission of some Australian filmmakers, to show the uglier side of the Antipodean male, continues unabated; the Wake in Fright style ...
Wednesday, 7 May 2025

NEW WAVE OF THE BRITISH FANTASTIC FILM 2024 #4 Witches special! Reviews of Witches of God (UK 2024), Witch (UK 2024), Salem Witch Doll (UK 2024), Inherit the Witch (UK 2024), The House on Mansfield Street: Evil Next Door (UK 2024) and The Whisper Within the Woods (UK 2023)

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Witches of God (UK 2024: Dir Daya Dodds) In an unspecified period of history the country has succumbed to a plague named the 'blue sick...
Wednesday, 30 April 2025

It Feeds (Canada 2025: Dir Chad Archibald)

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I like Chad Archibald's movies. His last two features, 2017's The Heretics and the following year's I'll Take Your Dead  mi...
Friday, 25 April 2025

Cloud aka Kuraudo (Japan 2024: Dir Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

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While Kurosawa's CV has often dwelt in stories of the strange and unusual, for his latest movie he's concerned with more prosaic mat...
Monday, 14 April 2025

The Ugly Stepsister aka Den stygge stesøsteren (Norway/Denmark/Romania/Poland/Sweden 2025: Dir Emilie Blichfeldt)

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As the directing world and their common law partner look to (public domain) folk tales for cinematic inspiration, with varying degrees of su...
Wednesday, 9 April 2025

Death of a Unicorn (USA/Hungary 2025: Dir Alex Scharfman)

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One aspect of the mythical unicorn, whose origins date back to ancient civilisations in China and India, was the healing properties of its s...