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Let Them All Talk (2020), Comfort Food For Soderbergh Fans

This movie is perplexing for a variety of reasons. What is this movie? Why does it exist? What even is it? Now, these aren’t words normally said about a movie playing to the same market as Book Club but this is directed by Steven Soderbergh dammit! This is the guy who remade Solaris and didn’tContinue reading “Let Them All Talk (2020), Comfort Food For Soderbergh Fans”

In The Earth (2021), Return of Ben Wheatley and Cinema

There was good reason to be fearful going into In The Earth and not just because it’s an icky weirdo horror movie. Ben Wheatley has been a favourite director of mine for years but seems to have been losing his way recently. My eye was first caught with his incredibly confrontational folk horror Kill ListContinue reading “In The Earth (2021), Return of Ben Wheatley and Cinema”

Saoirse’s Cult Corner #36: Short Night of the Glass Dolls (1971)

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 #36: Short Night of the Glass Dolls (1971)”

The Amusement Park (1973), Perfect End Note For Romero

Leon Trotsky once said, “Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man”. He was right. Well, speaking of unexpected things, this is a day I never thought would come. I’m sitting here and writing a review for a brand spanking new film by the late, great, George A.Continue reading “The Amusement Park (1973), Perfect End Note For Romero”

Saoirse’s Cult Corner #35: Demonlover (2002)

Kill It and Leave This Town (2020), A Haunting Polish Gem

Birds chop up people like fish and sell them. A filmmaker sits next to his dying mother completely unable to connect. A cat in a trench coat claims to be the embodiment of all evil. These images and many others which similarly blend the same sense of abstract horror and morbid mundanity abound in KillContinue reading “Kill It and Leave This Town (2020), A Haunting Polish Gem”

Saoirse’s Cult Corner #34: Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)

Wild Mountain Thyme (2021), An Insulting Self-Parody

This movie has provoked a lot of complicating and surrounding thoughts in me. So I’m going to just lay out my table before we get into it. I promise this is all going somewhere. For a long time as a writer about film I’ve had a morbid fascination. Well I’ve had several, increasingly niche morbidContinue reading “Wild Mountain Thyme (2021), An Insulting Self-Parody”

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