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FrightFest 2012: The Whole Bloody Affair - Part Two

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FrightFest 2012: The Whole Bloody Affair - Part Two

FrightFest 2012: The Whole Bloody Affair - Part Two

Posted: 16 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT

And so continues my blow-by-blow account of Film4 FrightFest the 13th at the Empire Leicester Square (23-27 August, 2012). Click here to read Part One.Day 3 - Saturday, 25th August Eurocrime! The Italian Cop And Gangster Films That Ruled The 70s (Dir. Mike Malloy, USA) There have been a spate of documentaries in recent years - think Mark Hartley's Not Quite Hollywood, Jake West's Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape and Alex Stapleton's Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel - that appear to crack open the fabric of the known cinematic world and expose a gaping wound literally oozing with rough, rewarding gems about which you previously knew almost nothing at all. As was especially the case with Hartley's film, Malloy will have you...

Anthony Scott Burns Embraces A Brave Old World Of Science Fiction With EPOCH

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 05:10 PM PDT

You may not know of Toronto based director Anthony Scott Burns just yet but if talent is any sort of harbinger of fame - which it, sadly, often is not - you will very soon indeed. Burns was recently brought on to create a music video for Paul Van Dyke's Epoch, a shoot for which he created a string of absolutely astounding images which he has since re-cut into a form a little more in line with his own vision.Crumbling cities, lonely spacemen, robot samurai, and a retro-futurism that evokes the likes of Kubrick, Tarkovsky and other classic talents while putting his own unique voice on things, this is a simply spectacular piece of work. Check it below....

TIFF 2012 Review: BYZANTIUM is Stuck Between Worlds

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Two sisters try to lay low in Dublin while being pursued by long-coated inspectors. Having committed a rather kinetic and conspicuous murder in the opening sequence of the film, the Webb sisters are actually a pair of highland blood suckers, a 200 year old mother and daughter pair of vampires. Possibly the last of their kind, moving from town to town and still working out some serious parent-child issues (not the least of which is their approach to handling their prey),  Gemma Arterton literally vamps it up, putting on a prostitute pose to seduce lowlives and cops, while her daughter plays more school girl, a more subtle and melancholic performance by Saoirse Ronan. The opposite disposition of these ladies (and the secrets they keep) are the engine for...

London! Get your Philip Ridley Fix with a Double Feature

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:05 AM PDT

Philip Ridley is a renaissance man: he is an artist, photographer, novelist, children's author, playwright, and a filmmaker. His work, especially in theatre, has caused some controversy and even at times been banned. He's only made three films in 22 years; his first film, The Reflecting Skin, gave Viggo Mortensen one of his first starring roles; The Passion of Darkly Noon featured Brenden Fraser is his creepiest role; and Heartless made a successful festival tour a couple of years ago. Ridley's work is raw, passionate, strange, and at least one of the films features exploding frogs. The first two films are hard to find, which is why it's great news for Londoners that Savage Cinema is screening them and that Ridley himself will be in...

L'Etrange 2012 Review: VANISHING WAVES is the Erotic Sci-Fi Drama of the Year!

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Vanishing Waves is an exquisite sci-fi head trip in the vein of Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey, one which takes pleasure in ideas and exploration rather than cheap thrills. As a bonus, it's also sexier than either of those movies. Rather than taking viewers to the outer limits, Lithuanian writer/director Kristina Buožytė is concerned solely with the depths of the human mind, and all the confusion, joy, sex and pain competing for space within. The plot involves a neuron-informatics scientist named Lukas who is chosen to take part in an experiment that involves actually transferring neuron information from a comatose girl to him. In layman's terms, Lukas is more or less entering the mind of a girl in a coma. Besides some very trippy...
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