The eleventh book from China Miéville, his second collection of short fiction, opens with the promised Three Moments of an Explosion, the prelude, the moment, the aftermath, a
“The following footage was shot by five friends during an “extreme haunt” road trip in October 2013,” reads the opening caption of this found footage exploration of the
Running in the New Perspectives strand of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, as the programme notes point out, this is actually a return to an old perspective of
If ever there was a filmmaker who reinvented themselves, it was Kevin Smith. It is twenty years since the release of Clerks, the innovatively financed black and white
“I believe horror is important because I believe it’s like fairytales. It’s not a fluke that it continues. The fact that the establishment, in film and in culture,
When a reboot/remake/reimagining (choose your own variant of cliché) exits the Hollywood studios these days, it is a hard internal struggle to remain open-minded and judge the film
In the calm rural scenery of Ireland’s County Offaly, a farmer goes about his business under the wide skies, cutting and stacking peat when he uncovers something, a
Standing at the foot of the cascade of ideas, the tumbling waterfall of words and images can sweep the unwary off their feet, undercurrents sucking them downstream to
“I’ve come to the city. Please don’t come for me. There’s a curfew here.” Things have been bad since the Necroambulist virus hit; contingencies have been put in
