Feature Essays
“Oh, you suffer beautifully” | Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
In the beginning, a man opened a magical puzzle box and was dragged into hell for an eternity of torture. He escaped, his skin flayed ...
REVIEW: Bad Boys for Life (2020)
The 25 year partnership of Miami police detectives Mike Lowry (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) is coming to an end, as new grandfather Marcus decides to take up an early retirement. When Mike is targeted for assassination by Mexican drug lords, however, the partnership needs to be kept together for just a few ...
REVIEW: Psychic School Wars (2012)
An Enoshima high school is visited by a new exchange student with unearthly psychic powers, who seems to be taking over and controlling the student body one by one. At the same time a short chain of unrequited love affects several of the students unaffected by the psychic effects. Psychic School Wars, which is directed ...
REVIEW: Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2006)
Matthew Barney is one of the USA's highest profile contemporary artists, primarily due to his internationally successful Cremaster Cycle of art films that were produced between 1994 and 2002. Over the course of his career he has worked with physical performance, sculpture, drawing, and photography. He has been both criticised and praised, but even those praising his ...
REVIEW: Little Women (2019)
Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel Little Women remains one of the most perennially popular books of all time. It tells the story of the four March sisters and their close family and friends, facing domestic troubles, love, loss, and sibling rivalry in the years during and following the American Civil War. It's popularity has extended to Hollywood, ...
REVIEW: 3 From Hell (2019)
10 years after their near-fatal shootout with police, rampage killers Otis (Bill Moseley) and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) escape from prison - their companion Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) having been executed for his crimes. Teaming up with criminal "Foxy" Coltrane (Richard Brake), they make a break for Mexico, although Baby's murderous obsessions may see them ...
REVIEW: The Tag-Along (2015)
Ho Chih-wei (River Huang) lives in a Taipei apartment with his grandmother Shu-fang (Liu Yin-shang). He works as a junior real estate agent while dating his girlfriend of five years, Shen Yi-chun (Tiffany Hsu Wei-ning). His aunt Shui has gone missing, and a video of her on a mountainside walk shows a mysterious girl in ...
REVIEW: Us (2019)
Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) has recovered from a childhood trauma, and is now both married to Gabe (Winston Duke) and the mother of two children. When four strangers force their way into her house one night, Adelaide and her family find themselves face-to-face with murderous doppelgängers intent on replacing them. Writer/director Jordan Peele follows his excellent ...
