Six Home Releases from January 2024 first published by Little White Lies, 10 Jan 2024, as entry 184 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Includes capsules of: Lord of Misrule, The Frightened Woman (Femina Ridens), Samurai Wolf, Peeping Tom, Mad Cats, Alligator Lord of Misrule (2023) “All is as was,” recite various locals from the English village…
If a cinema screen had eyes, all that it would see during a film’s run is faces staring at it from the shadows, and a bright flickering light above them to guide their gaze towards the dreamy images projected on its otherwise blank surface. Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu opens with a perspective something like this, as…
A text entry in a pseudo-biographical dictionary assigns the name ‘Nirmata’ to the architect of an advanced AI technology that has changed the world forever. This elusive figure, the titular ‘Creator’ who gives Gareth Edwards’ epic sci-fi feature its title, has acquired a semi-divine status from the mechanical beings that he has engendered and the…