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30 Oct 2008
Larry Peerce’s part-thriller, part-disaster movie evokes a certain nostalgia for its period, while containing some of the flaws characteristic of its time. The 1976 epic sees an unhinged sniper with a high powered rifle secret himself into a tower…
In one of his last-ever interviews, Italian director Valerio Zurlini discussed his life-long passion for Leo Tolstoy. 'What I find extraordinary in his work,' Zurlini observed, 'is the remarkable fusion between public and private history'. Zurlini never…
Organised in conjunction with the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies this fresh new festival delivers up a fairly up to date and diverse programme of films from the Slavonic nations and beyond. Highlights…
Incest, cannibalism, bestiality – cultures always have taboos, but are they all of equal magnitude? Respected documentary and fiction filmmaker Robinson Devor (Police Beat, The Woman Chaser) explores the latter in a film that adopts an Errol Morris…
24 Oct 2008
It’s Halloween, so lets fire up the DVD for some seasonal scares. We start with a trio from the Masters of Cinema series (all bundled up with substantial booklets and extras). The very roots of modern horror can be seen in silent masterpiece Nosferatu…
16 Oct 2008
It’s Halloween, so it must be time for the latest instalment in the most extreme survival horror series out there: Saw V. More than a simple gorefest, there’s a cruel intelligence at play with its villain, Jigsaw, the latest in a long line of horror…
THRILLER/COMEDY Modern idiocy and bleak humour are the order of the day in the Coen’s latest – a reworking (conscious or otherwise) of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of An Author. Foul-mouthed CIA analyst Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich…
The wildly imaginative and scary animated French portmanteau horror movie Fear(s) of the Dark was made by six European and American cartoonists working with professional animators. The most notable of those cartoonists is Charles Burns, who is a legend…
THRILLER Reuniting the talent from last year’s sleeper hit Disturbia and featuring a similar surveillance theme, Eagle Eye is a busy conspiracy thriller featuring manboy-of-the-moment Shia LaBoeuf and directed by DJ Caruso. With two major franchises…
ANIMATION/MYSTERY The Gallic term ‘outre’, meaning beyond or excessive, perfectly describes this imaginatively conceived and immaculately executed French language portmanteau horror. Much of its impact is derived from its unique nature: the…
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