SATAN’S BLADE (1984)
Satan’s Blade is indicative of the archetypal quality and budgets of 1980s ‘video nasties’. It’s an inexpensive slasher film mimicking the tried and tested...
MAGGIE’S PLAN (2015)
It’s been more than a decade since Rebecca Miller’s harrowing directorial debut, Angela (2015), and although her subsequent films (Personal Velocity, The Ballad of...
THE ONES BELOW (2015)
To say The Ones Below is inspired by the films of Roman Polanski would be a gross understatement. Motherhood-inflected horror, the conflict between pairs of...
QUEEN OF EARTH (2015)
Continuing on a path started during filming breaks on TV’s Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss is building an impressive resume of roles in US indies...
30 Years On: BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
John Carpenter's BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA was released across the US on this day, 30 years ago. To celebrate, we've investigated the origins of this flop summer movie from 1987 that became a cult favourite...
A BIGGER SPLASH (2015)
Following on from his Oscar-nominated film I Am Love, Italian director Luca Guadagino explores desire in the sun-drenched A Bigger Splash. A remake of...
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (2016)
It’s no overstatement to say that Illumination Entertainment owes its success to the Despicable Me films, with its incoherent but popular spin-off Minions also achieving...
REMAINDER (2015)
There’s an immediate urge to dive back into the world of Remainder once the screen fades to black. Based on Tom McCarthy’s underdog-debut-novel-turned-literary-phenomenon, this...
WARCRAFT (2016)
My interest in video games waned with the Playstation 2, so forgive me for not being au fait with Warcraft; the video games and...
THE NICE GUYS (2016)
Shane Black’s The Nice Guys harks back to the buddy movies of yesteryear, and is sure to remind audiences of his tremendous 2005 directorial...
THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE (1971) • THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES (1972)
In his career, director Emilio P. Miraglia only made a handful of films. But before turning his hand to filmmalking he worked behind-the-scenes on...
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (2016)
Alice in Wonderland—Tim Burton’s 2010 adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy story—was a gargantuan hit. Whether due to the star power of Johnny Depp as...