10 Nunsploitation Films first published by BFI, 13 April 2022 Includes capsules of: The Devils, School of the Holy Beast, Alucarda, Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Behind Convent Walls, Killer Nun, Dark Habits, Nude Nuns With Big Guns, St Agatha, Agnes Where exploitation films occupy the nether regions of cinema’s margins, taking advantage of…
Benedetta first published by VODzilla.co Paul Verhoeven‘s latest film opens with Benedetta (Elena Plonka) being taken by her parents in a carriage to join a convent. When, en route, the family comes under attack from armed soldiers on horseback, one of whom snatches a golden necklace from Benedetta’s mother (Clotilde Courau), the little girl boldly…
10 Sci-Fi Adaptations first published by BFI, 14 October 2021, to coincide with the release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Includes capsules of: Frankenstein, Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Horror Express, Starship Troopers, War of the Worlds, A Scanner Darkly, 1, The Congress, Aniara With its immense world building, vast ensemble of characters, and complicated…
Basic Instinct first published by Little White Lies, as the 129th entry in my Cinema Psychotronicum coulmn The plots of Clint Eastwood’s Play Misty For Me (1971), Edward Bianchi’s The Fan (1981) and Eckhart Schmidt’s similarly titled Der Fan (1982) may already have revolved around obsessive stalkers – but it was Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction…
Spetters first published by Little White Lies, as the 93rd instalment of my Cinema Psychotronicum column “I’ve got a good head for business,” says Fientje (Renée Soutendjik). “Never had much luck.” Fientje works with her brother Jaap (Peter Tuinman) selling fast food from a mobile stall, and they are currently using a small town outside…
Hollow Man (2000) and Hollow Man II (2006) first published by Little White Lies as the 85th entry in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “No man would keep his hands off what was not his own when he could safely take what he liked out of the market, or go into houses and lie with any…