Category: Films
Good news: there’s a new Horrible History DVD boxset out. Bad news: your children may not find it funny
Great news, parents! In just a few short weeks, a new Horrible History DVD will be released. Imagine the look of absolute delight on the [more…]
Carrie review – Brian De Palma’s horror masterpiece is a death metal spectacle of carnage
Brian De Palma’s insouciantly horrible masterpiece from 1976, adapted from the novel by Stephen King, and mixing in tropes and tricks from Hitchcock’s Psycho, is [more…]
Are you not entertained? The XVIII best films about the Romans – ranked!
View image in fullscreen XVIII. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) In this heavy-going British Technicolor adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play, Claude Rains’s oddly relaxed Julius [more…]
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum review – glory and geekery
You’ll need a pretty high geek tolerance level for this very detailed and specialised account of Sir Clive Sinclair’s bestselling ZX Spectrum home computer, whose [more…]
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – lovingly eccentric ode to a forgotten abstract painter
A rogue preposition in the title betrays this film’s distinctive, dartingly eccentric idiom: not “of deeper things” but “to deeper things”. It is about neglected [more…]
The Wild Robot review – heartfelt animated adventure is a soaring success
At first glance, The Wild Robot, a new movie from DreamWorks Animation (and one of the studio’s last in-house productions), seems to target the voguish [more…]
Tell us: what are your thoughts on Joker: Folie à Deux?
Joker: Folie à Deux, the musical sequel to 2019’s hit Joker, stands to be a commercial flop with a predicted loss of as much as [more…]
Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands review – the joy and the fury
The first Scottish girl band to break into the charts were the McKinlay Sisters in 1964, a pop duo formed by Jeanette and Sheila McKinlay. [more…]
Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare review – flawed Netflix documentary still shocks
When Kirat Assi received a Facebook friend request from a man named Bobby Jandu, in 2009, she had no reason to view it suspiciously. It [more…]
Studio One Forever review – affectionate look back at LA’s legendary gay club
‘It used to be paradise. Now it’s a straight club.” The dismay is obvious when a bunch of former regulars at Studio One, the legendary [more…]
