Film Reviews

The Unkindness of Ravens (2016) is the second horror feature from the remarkable Scottish duo, director Lawrie Brewster and writer Sarah Daly. As with their feature debut, Lord of Tears (AKA The Owlman), unleashed on the unsuspecting public back in ...

On November 27th, 2015, a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado was targeted by a gunman, which led to the deaths of a police officer and two civilians, with a further four police officers and four civilians injured.  During ...

The Japanese Film Festival in Australia, which is presented by The Japan Foundation, Sydney, always includes a few genre films for horror lovers. This year saw the 20th instalment of the event, which toured Australia from 14 October to 4 December 2016, ...

This year’s Monster Fest was full of incredibly well realized horror films, none more so than Raw, a French-Belgian horror/drama with a hint of comedy sprinkled throughout. Raw (or Grave, the original French title) is the third directorial credit for ...

Beyond the Gates (2016) is like Jumanji (1995) or Zathura (2005), albeit with nocturnal ghouls and gory exploding heads. Tipping his hat to all of the cheesy B-movie relics that he most likely devoured from one box cover to the next in ...

Antiquated gender norms and a suppressed female voice are enough to fume those trying to make a mark or just get noticed in the entertainment industry. Sometimes, they can take a psychological toll on someone. With the deliciously prickly, increasingly ...

It is incredible to think that Orson Welles’ Macbeth (1948) was only the fourth Hollywood sound production to adapt Shakespeare — made after Welles failed to get Alexander Korda to fund a production of Othello — and that the film is ...

Director Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest offering, L’avenir (2016) aka Things to Come, essentially revolves around Rousseau’s maxim, “If happiness fails to come, hope persists.” Rousseau — and philosophy in general — plays a big part in the film, as it follows ...

French writer and director Lucile Hadžihalilović is one of the more fascinating, if elusive figures of contemporary French cinema. Perhaps best known for her collaborations with her partner, Gaspar Noé — including producing, writing, and editing credits on his films ...

Within the past few years it has become undeniable that witches and witchcraft are in fashion, be it in film, television or culture at large (full disclosure: this author has even made a short that falls in the ‘witchsploitation’ sub-genre). ...