Sin City: A Dame To Kill For first published by Film4 Descriptive synopsis: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller return us to their stylised multi-story city of hard-boiled antiheroes, corrupt authorities, femmes fatales and whores with hearts of gold. Review: Since it first appeared on our screens in 2005, not much has changed in Sin City. How…
Review first appeared in Sight & Sound, November 2013 Synopsis: After Machete’s lover, immigration agent Santana, is murdered by weapons smugglers, he is asked by the US President to stop Mexican madman Marcos Mendez launching a missile aimed at Washington. With Agent ‘Miss San Antonio’ as his handler, Machete tracks Mendez to his base. The…
Review first published by Cinetalk. “They drink blood, they yank out spinal cords, chop up bodies,” Federal Agent Magdalena (Gizeht Galatea) tells Carlos Gutiérrez (Carlos Gallardo) over dinner, as she describes the macabre modus operandi of the ‘Satanic drug-trafficking cult’ that they have teamed up to pursue. “Want dessert?” Humble, softly spoken Carlos is the…
Thanks to their singular, striking second feature American Mary, ‘Twisted Twins’ Jennifer and Sylvia Soska have become the reigning queens of the horror scene. I interviewed them a while back for a print article, but as often happens, ended up having to perform radical surgery on their words in order to comply with a restrictive…