Category: Review

In order to work effectively the architecture of a ghost story is fundamental; this is not to say the structure of the story, the slow dreadful build of

While it is not unheard of for the fantastic cinema of Russia to make its way to the west – Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris in 1972, Timur Bekmambetov’s Night

With five highly successful if not critically acclaimed films preceding it within a span of fifteen years which already included a reboot of Sam Raimi’s 2002 modern-day interpretation

Carl has had bad nights and bad mornings before. It’s a year since he was released from prison and he no longer drinks. “It sends me off,” he

In a genre littered with controversial films, works which have been heavily censored or outright banned, Jörg Buttgereit’s 1987 Nekromantik is in a league of its own, an

Screening at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and introduced to the capacity crowd by director Dome Karukoski, the story of Touko Laaksonen is one of contradictions, an artist

In Cappadocia in 55AD, in what is now known as Turkey, a man was dragged by ropes across sand strewn with broken rocks then thrown down as his

The laws of physics are universal; it has taken thousands of years to extrapolate them from the evidence of the everyday, but they govern the motion of objects

Life hasn’t been easy for David. He’s never been the most popular boy at school, never been one of the cool kids, never been with “the in crowd,”

Where a game is interactive, on the whole a novel cannot be, though there have been many “choose your own adventure” books down the years, of which Games