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Mr Bates vs The Post Office (2024) – Firebrand Television

It’s quite incredible when art and media actually has an effect. It’s very easy at the minute to treat art, especially the motion picture arts, as essentially a frivolity. I think, especially in the UK at the moment, people in power do not want to think about movies and television. We live in an age,Continue reading “Mr Bates vs The Post Office (2024) – Firebrand Television”

The Killer (2023) – Sigma Grindset Scuppered

David Fincher over a career spanning four decades has set himself out to be one of the most enigmatic directors working. His films often play directly to the public’s appetite for popcorn thrills while serving them exploitation violence with films that often wriggle under inspection and deny any obvious moral stance. As a filmmaker heContinue reading “The Killer (2023) – Sigma Grindset Scuppered”

Saoirse’s Cult Corner #45: Beauty and The Beast (Panna a netvor) (1978)

In this column, cult columnist Saoirse takes you on a biweekly jaunt through the obscure annals of the cult film world. We’ll touch on everything from Giallo to J-Horror to Wakaliwood & so much more. If it’s a low budget genre film, or even a big-budget flop with a dogged audience, or even an undiscoveredContinue reading “Saoirse’s Cult Corner #45: Beauty and The Beast (Panna a netvor) (1978)”

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) – Monumental Martin Scorcese

The new film by acclaimed American filmmaker Martin Scorcese is in cinemas, rejoice! If the point of a review is to tell if you should spend your £15 to go see a movie it should really end there. The new film by Martin Scorcese is a grown up, three and a half hour epic thatContinue reading “Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) – Monumental Martin Scorcese”

Saoirse’s Cult Corner #44: The Boxer’s Omen (1983)

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial: A Conflicted if Sturdy Swansong

On the 7th of August 2023, as of writing almost two months ago, the great American filmmaker William Friedkin passed away. Traditionally in criticism, films, and works of art more broadly, should stand on their own divorced from context but there are exceptions, and anyone who tells you that their opinion of The Caine MutinyContinue reading “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial: A Conflicted if Sturdy Swansong “

Verotika (2019) – How the Gods Kill (Horror)

There has recently been a strange discourse on the internet. The internet being what it is, it’s not like it’s actually going to matter or change anything, but people seemed to get very exorcized. Even Paul Schrader weighed in because he seems to have nothing better to do these days between making very fine moviesContinue reading “Verotika (2019) – How the Gods Kill (Horror)”

Saoirse’s Cult Corner #43: Deathdream (1974)

The Green Knight (2021), Truly Epic Fantasy

David Lowry extends his run as a perplexingly chimeric maker of very good films with The Green Knight, which might be one of his finest achievements yet. Based on the epic poem ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, The Green Knight follows Dev Patel as the famous Arthurian character, Sir Gawain. After being called toContinue reading “The Green Knight (2021), Truly Epic Fantasy”

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