Friday, 31 May 2019

Level 16 (Canada 2018: Dir Danika Asterhazy)

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In Asterhazy's downbeat, austere and time unspecific sci fi drama we are introduced to a group of girls who all live in a confined fac...
Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Fonotune: An Electric Fairytale (USA/Japan/Germany 2018: Dir FINT)

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There's more than a whiff of early Jim Jarmusch about this achingly cool end of the world sci fi film, a first feature by the Bavarian...
Friday, 17 May 2019

The Quake (Norway 2018: Dir John Andreas Andersen)

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"I can't even imagine the nightmare you have been through. But that doesn't mean disasters follow you." Sadly for Kristi...
Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Highlights of Paracinema Festival, Derby, May 2019: Reviews of Zeroes (USA 2018), Fuck You All: the Uwe Boll Story (Canada/USA 2018), Knife + Heart (France/Mexico/Switzerland 2018), Diamantino (Portugal/France/Brazil 2018), Bearkittens (Germany 2018), Fornacis (Réunion/France 2019), Far from the Apple Tree (UK 2019) and VIPCO: The Untold Story (UK 2019)

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Derby's Paracinema Festival is now in its second year (it was previously held under the 'Fantastiq' banner), although this i...
Saturday, 11 May 2019

Birds of Passage aka Pájaros de verano (Colombia 2018: Dir Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego)

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Guerra and Gallego's last film, as director and producer respectively, was 2015's Embrace of the Serpent , a fabulous magic realis...
Monday, 29 April 2019

Supermarket Sweep #7: Reviews of The Exorcism of Karen Walker (UK 2018), St Agatha (USA 2018), West of Hell (USA 2018), Curse of the Witch's Doll (UK 2018), The Haunting of Borley Rectory (UK 2019) and Unholy (UK 2015)

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The Exorcism of Karen Walker (UK 2019: Dir Steve Lawson) Steve Lawson has previously been a reliable budget genre director, bringing us m...
Monday, 22 April 2019

The Witch - Part1 - The Subversion (2018 South Korea: Dir Hoon-jung Park)

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In action director and screenwriter (he wrote the script for I Saw the Devil ) Hoon-jung Park's latest movie, a girl escapes from a me...