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I Saw the Devil DVD Review
If revenge is a dish best served cold, Kim Ji-woon’s latest movie depicts a retribution so agonisingly prolonged that it’s covered in a veneer of mould by the time it’s doled out. Continue reading
Rubber DVD Review
2010
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Writer: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Stephen Spinella, Roxanne Mesquida, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser, Ethan Cohn, Charley Koontz, Tara O’Brien
A bespectacled man stands by a dozen or so wooden chairs on a desolate highway. A police car approaches, knocking down the chairs as though they formed a driving course, and halts. A lawman climbs from out of … read more
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Tagged films / movies, Horror Movies, Independent Cinema, metafiction
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The Door (Die Tür) DVD Review
2009
Director: Anno Saul
Script: Jan Berger
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Heike, Makatsch
Following on from such curiosities as The Box and The Bothersome Man, German thriller The Door fits into a science fiction subgenre perhaps best described as “could have been a Twilight Zone episode.” It’s a dark and inventive “what if?” fantasy tale, based the novel … read more
Caged (Captifs) DVD Review
2010
Director: Yann Gozlan
Script: Yann Gozlan, Guillaume Lemans
Cast: Zoé Felix, Eric Savin, Arié Elmaleh
Organ trafficking gets the Texas Chainsaw treatment in this Gallic horror, which sees a group of humanitarians captured in Eastern Europe and kindly alleviated of their burdensome components.
While this premise may sound like the set up for another torture-porn endurance test, director Yann … read more
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Tagged films / movies, French cinema, Horror Movies, world cinema
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The Man Who Fell to Earth DVD Review
1976
Director: Nicholas Roeg
Script: Paul Mayersberg
Cast: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn, Buck Henry
Nicholas Roeg’s deceptively elaborate tale of an extraterrestrial striving to bring water to his drought-inflicted homeworld is by far his most ponderous. A film as imaginative as it is indulgent, The Man Who Fell to Earth presents Roeg’s visual poetry at its most chronologically … read more
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Tagged 70s cinema, classic cinema, David Bowie, films / movies
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Zonad DVD Review
2009
Written and directed by: John Carney, Kieran Carney
Cast: Simon Delaney, David Pearse, Janice Byrne
Extraterrestrial invaders battle for the quaint town of Ballymoran in this low budget Irish comedy. Only, Zonad and his archnemesis Bonad aren’t aliens but two escaped lunatics – unlike “prot” in K-Pax, there’s no question as to whether these unlikely champions are anything … read more
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Tagged films / movies, Independent Cinema, Irish Cinema, science fiction
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Brighton Rock (1947) DVD Review
1947
Director: John Boulting
Script: Graham Greene, Terence Rattigan
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Hermoine Baddeley, Carol Marsh, William Hartnell, Wylie Watson
Richard Attenborough became a cinema icon with his portrayal of small time gangster Pinkie, the baby-faced psychopath forced to marry naive waitress Rose (Carol Marsh) when she becomes a potential witness to his murder of a journalist.
In perhaps the … read more
In Their Sleep DVD Review
2009
Directors: Caroline Du Potet, Eric Du Potet
Script: Caroline Du Potet, Eric Du Potet
Cast: Anne Parillaud, Arthur Dupont, Thiery Fremont
You always love the ones you hurt in this intimateFrench horror, which sees a bereaved mother bond with a troubled teenager after nearly running him down on an unlit country lane. Covered in blood … read more
A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy (Äntligen Midsommar!) DVD Review
2009
Director: Ian McCrudden
Script: Henrik Engström, Mattias Grosin, Erik Hörstadius, Ian McCrudden
Cast: Olle Sarri, Lisa Werlinder, Alexander Karim, Anna Littorin, Luke Perry
Not to be confused with Woody Allen’s 1982 comedy A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy is an amiable enough little movie that sees three couples (and Luke Perry) gather for the … read more
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Tagged film, films / movies, Independent Cinema, world cinema
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‘F’ DVD Review
2010
Director/Writer: Johannes Roberts
Cast: David Schofield, Eliza Bennett, Ruth Gemmel, Roxanne McKee
11 months after a violent altercation with a pupil lead to his suspensions, Robert Anderson is burnt-out, separated from his family and drinking on the job. He’s also the only teacher at his comprehensive prepared for an attack from murderous youths in this horror movie that, following … read more
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