Modern horrors can be compared to Ghost Trains at the carnival. They may make you jump but chances are you’re more likely to laugh after the experience than to leave the ride in fear. The use of jump...
Tom McCarthy has some impressive credits to his name. As well as bringing us The Station Agent and working on Game of Thrones, he also contributed to Pixar’s Up having been one of the story wri...
Dante Lam’s 2014 That Demon Within made its way to the 2016 Glasgow Film Festival. A gripping crime thriller that pulls no punches in its violent shoot outs and duplicitous protagonist.
One of the age-old questions asked is “if there is a God, why does he let bad things happen?” Director Jaco Van Dermal has his own answer for that in The Brand New Testament and it’...
The horrors of World War II didn’t end with Germany’s surrender. For all that has been documented of this time there are many stories relatively unknown, including a horrifying practice b...
A dutiful police officer doubts himself after saving the life of a notorious and ruthless killer. Unsure if he did the right thing by protecting a cold-blooded murderer, his actions come back to haun...
God is a grumpy sadist living in an apartment in Brussels who only created mankind so he had something to torment. Intrigued? I known I am. The Brand New Testament (French: Le Tout Nouveau Testament)...
It’s May 1945 and the Germans have just surrendered. A group of German POWs were handed over to the Danish authorities and tasked with dangerous work – dig up their own land mines by hand...
There is something utterly repugnant about High-Rise that makes it difficult to watch. The characters for the most part are hateful as they indulge in their hedonistic lifestyles. It’s difficul...
Filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein was an innovative genius whose legacy is timeless. Like most great minds, Eisenstein was a troubled soul and although he was married to a woman there was speculation about...