Month: December 2021

It opens to the sounds of gunfire and images of war, the dead, nothing spared, a tone which continues throughout Yasuzo Masumura’s Red Angel (赤い天使, Akai Tenshi), adapted

The Hotel Poseidon is drowning in filth, misery and decay. The walls and dishes are dirty, and every word can be heard through the thin walls, intrusive and

Donny Kohler, the man who lives alone with his mother. Donny Kohler, the man who works at the incinerator plant and has only one friend. Donny Kohler, who

A shadow has fallen across Europe and beyond, stretching from Russia to distant America, at its centre a figure who is pulling the strings of the nations like

Confined to bed in her candlelit room, the final stages of her terminal osteosarcoma imminent, Olga Marsdale’s sole companion is normally her son Edgar but today she has

The shortest day arriving as the year crawls towards its weary end before the long road back to the warmth of summer begins, the traditions of Christmas and

Once winner of the Golden Shovel for investigative reporting and the first journalist on the scene of the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in February 1986,

It’s been a difficult few years for Peter Parker: developing super powers, drafted into the Avengers just as they were breaking up, then again as they got back

Launched in the mid-fifties, American International Pictures was a prolific independent studio whose reputation was justifiably linked with B-movies: science fiction, horror, exploitation, shot quickly and cheaply, so

Rikers Valley, “the industrial heart of Maine,” and at the heart of the town is Gartley’s Blue Ribbon Laundry, providing employment and clean linen to the surrounding neighbourhoods