Monday, 4 May 2026

Touch Me (USA 2025: Dir Addison Heimann)

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If the creators of The Mighty Boosh had bonded over lunch with Frank Henenlotter (I'll leave you to work out the details of that one) T...
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

NEW WAVE OF THE BRITISH FANTASTIC FILM 2021 #24 - the final three: Reviews of Philia (UK 2021), Slammer (UK 2021) and Burns Night (UK 2021)

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Philia (UK 2021: Dir Various) Welcome to the cinema of transgression as we meet a group of people who are clearly working through their own...
Saturday, 21 March 2026

NEW WAVE OF THE BRITISH FANTASTIC FILM 2026 #1: Reviews of Bone Keeper (UK 2025), Daggers Inn (UK 2025), Jitters (UK 2025), Forty Five (UK 2025), Beyond Mamushi (UK 2026) and Wizard of Oz: The Dead Walk (UK 2025)

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Bone Keeper (UK 2025: Dir Howard J Ford) Imagine the cast of - and story from - the average Scott Jeffrey Jagged Edge production, beamed dow...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

NEW WAVE OF THE BRITISH FANTASTIC FILM 2021 #23: Reviews of Caveat (UK 2020), Censor (UK 2021), Infinitum: Subject Unknown (UK 2021), The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud (UK 2020), Last Night in Soho (UK 2021) and The Legend of Jack and Jill (UK 2021)

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Caveat (UK 2020: Dir Damian McCarthy) Mood trumps narrative in McCarthy's debut feature. A lone guy, shaggy of beard and haunted of loo...
Tuesday, 17 February 2026

Jimmy and Stiggs (USA 2025: Dir Joe Begos)

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Joe Begos's world turned dayglow around 2019 when, following his first two rather sedate features ( Almost Human and The Mind's Eye...
Monday, 2 February 2026

Missing Child Videotape (Japan 2024: Dir Ryota Kondo)

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Keita Kodama (Sugita Rairu) divides his time between working in a grocery shop, sharing his small flat with psychically gifted room mate Tsu...
Tuesday, 6 January 2026

NEW WAVE OF THE BRITISH FANTASTIC FILM 2022 #7: Reviews of Writers' Retreat (UK 2022), Ghost Crew (UK 2022), The Mothman Tapes (UK 2022), When the Earth Gives Up the Dead (UK 2022), Tales of the Creeping Death (UK 2022) and York Witches Society (UK 2022)

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Writers' Retreat (UK 2022: Dir Mishaal Memon) This 30 minute short film, produced via the University of Westminster Film School, truly e...