A surly stranger walks into a bar, confrontational and challenging, but the bartender finds them interesting; conversation ensues. The stranger reveals to the bartender they’re a writer who
Having released several films from the archives of Roger Corman over the last year, it is pleasing that Arrow Films have chosen one of the last from their
Brad Bird has an enviable record. His first produced feature script was *batteries not included, he worked on The Simpsons for ten years, then as a feature director
It’s difficult third film time for writer/director Neill Blomkamp, the release of his latest feature almost overshadowed by the near simultaneous announcement that he has been signed by
Perhaps one of the best known of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, certainly during his lifetime, The Raven was a poem first published in January 1845. The
Now in its 11th year, for the second year running the Glasgow Film Festival topped 40,000 admissions to its programme of 174 events including eleven world premieres in
Hild “Thorn” Bathu is the first woman in a generation to be accepted into training for the king’s raid, but as ever, pain, bad timing and misfortune plague
The best horror films are often not so much about what is onscreen as about what they tells us about ourselves, expressing fears of isolation, or abandonment, of
It was in 1960 that producer and director Roger Corman began his long cinematic affair with Edgar Allan Poe; there had been ups and downs, and there had
On February 27th our community lost one of its vanguard. His work and its influence needs no further elaboration on these pages; indeed, these pages would likely never
