
Facing the uncanny: Conor McPherson’s The Eclipse
A man is driving home at night in the Irish countryside when suddenly the ghostly figure of his father-in-law (Jim…
A man is driving home at night in the Irish countryside when suddenly the ghostly figure of his father-in-law (Jim…
In Sion Sono’s Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi, 2008), 17-year-old Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) struggles with his sexual awakening. Sono turns the…
Weaving horror techniques with philosophical undertones, Cube (1997) navigates the dark recesses of humanity in a mechanical enigma. In a…
Ánimas Trujano (Mexico, 1962) starts as a documentary film with images of a festival which the villagers in the Mexican…
In his autobiography, Something Like an Autobiography, Akira Kurosawa mentions that since his youth he had loved horses and had…
Special Service agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) approaches both his job and his life with reckless abandon, throwing caution to…
As the clocks turn back and the weather turns cold, I turn back to my favourite genre, film noir, transforming…
Desperado Outpost (Dokuritsu gurentai, Japan, 1959) starts with shots of a man on horseback in a landscape reminiscent of a…
Joanna Hogg’s second feature film follows in the footsteps of her first. Like Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2010) is a brutally…