Film Reviews

There are two outcomes for the subjugated citizens of this bleak portrait of Turkey under the rule of presidential despot Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: you’re either killed by the state or enslaved by it. It’s not clear which is worse. Orçun ...

Lund International Fantastic Film Festival Reviews: Manriki Serves Up Plastic Surgery Horrors; White Snake Offers Breathtaking Chinese Animation Manriki The following films screened at the 2019 Lund International Fantastic Film Festival, held in Lund, Sweden, from 27 September–5 October. Japanese ...

The visionary Paul Verhoeven’s much-maligned $45m schlockbuster Showgirls, a sleazy rags-to-sequins story of potato chips and backstabbing dancers set amid the cum-slicked clubs of Las Vegas, was received with almost unanimous disgust upon its release in 1995. Elizabeth Berkley plays ...

The following films screened at the 2019 Lund International Fantastic Film Festival (Lund, Sweden) from September 27 until October 5. Hungarian film His Master’s Voice (Az Úr hangja, 2018) is a trippy, challenging work focused on a man’s search for ...

Pat Boone had a decent career as a movie star, but he was no Elvis Presley. However, he starred in over a dozen films, had a couple of huge hits and for a few years was one of the biggest ...

The following films screened at Arrow Video FrightFest, held in London from 22–26 August, 2019. Dark Encounter (U.K., 2019) is an alien abduction film unlike pretty much any other that has come before. It’s an odd beast, in the best ...

The following films screened at Arrow Video FrightFest, which was held in London from 22–26 August, 2019. A woman who is convinced her baby was delivered by caesarean section and kidnapped by a shadowy cult tries to convince skeptical authorities ...

With Rutger Hauer’s recent passing, many reflected on a long and varied career that included memorable bad guys (The Hitcher, Nighthawks), heroic warriors (Ladyhawke) bizarre adverts (Guinness, Lurpak) and post-apocalyptic sports dudes (Salute of the Jugger a.k.a. The Blood of ...

I’ve always been fascinated by the notion of irony, reaping what you sew, getting back what you put out. However you want to call it, it is essentially the penance fate requires you to succumb to as payment for your ...

If YOU have never thought about death, it’s time you started thinking.” As the trailer for Faces of Death (1978) comes to an end, the final statement issues a firm declaration to anyone watching. What lies in store for us ...