Mark of the Witch
The problem with horror movies is that the line between scary and silly is often a very, very fine one. Treading over this fine line is often excused by using the description “camp”. But can that be […]
DVD review
Mark of the Witch
Mommy
Before the action starts in French-Canadian writer/director Xavier Donan’s 5th movie, we are told we are in a Canada where, as of the 2015, new legislation means parents of unruly children are allowed to dump […]
La Maison de la Radio
This documentary by Nicolas Philibert purports to be a single day in the life of French national public radio broadcaster Radio France, starting with breakfast news and ending with the follow day starting anew. It […]
Jimi: All Is By My Side
Good lord this is a curious movie – a biopic about Jimi Hendrix which features no music by Jimi Hendrix. It’s difficult not to be reminded of the fake Janis Joplin biopic Sing Them Blues, […]
Scintilla (aka The Hybrid)
William O’Brien’s second feature Scintilla is another foray into the same theme of bad scientists being irresponsible with human genetics that 2006’s Isolation was hung around. This time John Lynch (think a sort of cut-price brooding Northern […]