Comic Review: Video Nasty #1 – 2
Video Nasty is a hard-boiled, gritty suspense-thriller of a comic book.
MOVIE REVIEW: Dean Koontz’s ODD THOMAS
Dean Koontz has had more of his novels filmified than Demon Seed. Bet you didn’t know that.
Movie Review: Rewind This! Documentary + Photo Gallery
A review of the video tape industry documentary, Rewind This!
Jurassic Park is 20 – What Went Wrong?
Jurassic Park opened in the UK 20 years ago this month. A 3D conversion was foisted upon an indifferent a few months ago. Universal is making Jurassic Park IV. All of which got me thinking about the original film and all its many failings compared to Michael Crichton’s novel. Not least being its candidacy for […]
Deconstructing Horror: Shaky Hands
Shaky Hands first-person horror If you’ve been watching horror movies for the last 15 years, you’re bound to have noticed the proliferation of hand-held, homemade horror films that are being made. A few weeks ago, I mention a movie I’d watched, Sean Stone’s The Asylum Tapes which used the grime-y authenticity […]
V/H/S/ and the Case of the Missing Women
The first V/H/S was a boy’s club. The sensibility of that film, an anthology released to much acclaim and success in 2012, was so aggressively straight and male that the entire film was nearly spoiled. From the framing sequence’s group of men assaulting women while videotaping their exploits to the frat-boy bar pickup/sex in a […]
