The Devil’s Rock first published by Film4, 1 July 2011 “Their leader has long been searching for so-called wonder weapons – magical items with which he will kill your people in multitudes. He already has the Holy Lance. He had within his grasp the Ark of the Covenant. He tried to awaken the Great Old…
Think of England had its world première at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 14 Nov 2025 Richard Hawkins’ directorial debut everything (2004) was an independently produced, low-budget peep into the world of sex work. Though coming with a period setting, his belated follow-up Think of England is similarly concerned with a kind of sex work,…
Australia first published by Film4 Summary: Following his ‘Red Curtain Trilogy’, poly-hyphenate Baz Luhrmann turns to national epic, in an optimistic tale of adventure, romance, war and racial reconciliation Down Under. Review: Way back in 1915 when D.W. Griffiths made his Civil War and Reconstruction epic The Birth of a Nation, he may have been expanding…
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…
Freaks Out (aka Freaks vs the Reich) had its UK première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2022 Italy, 1943 – the travelling Half Penny Circus brings thrills and joys to its audience, momentarily distracting children from their day-to-day troubles. Albino ‘Insect Boy’ Cencio (Pietro Castellitto) controls invertebrates with his mind like the heroine of Dario Argento’s…
Review first published by Sight & Sound, Jan 2015 Synopsis: Paris before dawn, 25th August 1944. With the Allies due in the city centre within hours, General Dietrich von Choltitz prepares to enact Hitler’s orders to level the capital with rigged explosives. The Swedish consul Raoul Nordling enters Choltitz’s suite at the Hôtel Meurice via…