Movies
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The forgotten hybrids of Japan’s Y2K horror boom
The films didn’t exactly support Ichise’s 2005 statement that “Japanese horror is scarier than American horror”, but they were exemplary…
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Sophie Thatcher: ‘It felt like the most I’d ever…
Sophie Thatcher hasn’t slept properly in weeks. Between wrapping the final season of cult horror series Yellowjackets and being a part…
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Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘I’d been given a gift to…
Nicolas Winding Refn returns to the cinema – and from the dead – with a neon-hued fable about the father-daughter relationship…
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Her Private Hell review – a wild new showcase of…
In 2007, I got up early one autumn morning and took the train to Worksop in Nottinghamshire. My reading material for…
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Sense and Sensibility review – a wildly beautiful…
It’s impossible to talk about the new Sense and Sensibility without talking about the old one. Ang Lee’s 1995 adaptation,…
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Hope review – a rip-snorting creature feature
For all of the rip-roaring set pieces in Na Hong-jin’s creature feature Hope, there’s a scene at the halfway point that…
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Remake review – a remarkable tribute
“We can’t go backwards, Dad.” A young Adrian McElwee says this to his father, filmmaker Ross McElwee, while they’re catching…
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Resident Evil review – an absolute blast
As a considerable fan of the Resident Evil series of survival horror video games, I had the constant image of the famous…
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Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo – first-look review
All lieutenants are bad, to paraphrase a famous axiom, and that includes officers on every police force, everywhere – at least,…
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom review…
Fans of the 2005 feature length Wallace and Gromit outing, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, may experience pangs of déjà vu…
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