I was very impressed with Chris Baugh’s Boys From County Hell, a horror-comedy that takes the form and digs deeper than you may expect. Balancing arterial spray with nuanced portrayals of grief and regret, don’t miss this.
Somehow, miraculously, EMPIRE Magazine let me write about the film for them, so do me a solid and check out my full review here -> https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/boys-from-county-hell/
So, err, this review over at Empire Magazine may be worth checking out. No particular reason...
Nah, screw it! I GOT PUBLISHED BY EMPIRE! I GOT PUBLISHED BY EMPIRE! This is very much a dream come true for me. If I never write again, or if I go on to do more with them, this will still be the absolute best feeling I’ve ever had as a film journalist. I feel like I should do an acceptance speech haha 😂 this is just WILD!
🎶 This house is / This house is
I don’t know what it is… 🎶
These three abode-based a theological tales may decline sequentially in narrative quality and thematic intrigue, but the four directors’ stop-motion style and aptitude for an eery ambience make The House somewhere that fans of the works of Jan Svankmajer, Henry Selick, Lotte Reiniger, Phil Tippett, and other such connoisseurs of cutting shapes and moulding misadventures will feel very much at home. I…
Phoebe: Hey. Don't we get a phone call?
Sheriff Domingo: Sure you do. Who you gonna call?
Rewatching this ‘Requel’ directly after seeing the latest Scream film was certainly eye-opening. This really is the textbook example of the idea - a film that’s technically new, introduces new characters who are somehow tied to the original series’ principals but intended to freshen things up for a new generation, and brings back the old guard to legitimise the new material and satiate…
James Bond: We have all the time in the world.
FULL REVIEW HERE.
No Time To Die is a beautiful swansong for Daniel Craig’s James Bond, a film that really does feel like the culmination of all that came before it. Boasting the style and swagger of Casino Royale (which is nodded to in the obligatory pre-credit chase thanks to a heavily dialled up parkour segment - now with added bikes), the brutal viscera of QoS (there’s some phenomenal sound…
