Shadow in the Cloud first published by VODzilla.co Roseanne Liang’s Shadow in the Cloud begins with a wartime information cartoon. Snoozing and drinking when he should be doing maintenance work on a plane, an airman blames his carelessness – and the ensuing damage done to the plane – on a gremlin (visualised as a precursor…
Suspiria first published by Little White Lies ‘Simulacrum’ is the single word that elderly psychologist Dr Jozef Klemperer (played by one Lutz Ebersdorf, in fact a pseudonym for Tilda Swinton) writes in his case notes as he listens to an unhinged Patricia Hingle (Chloë Grace Moretz) rave in his apartment cum consulting room. In this…
Review first appeared in Sight & Sound, October 2013 Review: Imagining – like Peter Stebbings’ Defendor (2009), James Gunn’s Super (2010) and of course Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass (2010) – would-be superheroes and supervillains in a recognisably real world, Kick-Ass 2 thrives on an overt self-awareness of all its most questionable qualities. If aspirant archnemesis Chris…