Combining supernatural scares with a touch of the dark, hypnotic mood of Jonathon Glazer’s Under The Skin, the sinister melancholia of Let The Right One In, the grim suburbia of John Carpenter’s Halloween and the sexualised teen world of Larry Clark’s films, the creepy, atmospheric It Follows manages to connect low budget art house cinema with classic teen horror. Impressively,
Read moreThe riveting true-crime drama Foxcatcher explores the strange and catastrophic relationship between champion American wrestling brothers Dave (Mark Ruffalo) and Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and their disturbed patron, du Pont chemical company head John du Pont (Steve Carrell). Mark Schultz won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the LA Olympics in ’84 but neither lucrative endorsements nor regular income
Read moreBefore it descended into torture porn and the mass slaughter of appallingly stereotyped swarthy Eastern Europeans, the first Taken film was a tense and exciting action/drama with convincingly visceral fight scenes, a darkly menacing Paris setting and a memorable lead performance from Liam Neeson who, as former CIA spook Brian Mills, beat up half of Europe to recover his kidnapped daughter
Read moreBy seeing what’s in The Purple Haze Archive Classics page we have made searching a little bit easier by listing all the ‘Classics’ series of Purple Haze Archive Podcasts. So just click on the show you want to listen to & it will take you to the correct page for your listening pleasure! The Monkees Simon and Garfunkel David
Read moreFor No Good Reason documents the life and work of iconic British artist and cartoonist Ralph Steadman. Even if his name is not familiar, his confronting artwork which is full of wonderfully grotesque, cadaverous, deformed figures and distinctive ink and paint splatters will be. His art has graced posters for movies such as Withnail and I and for years his
Read moreSiddharth is a visually remarkable but depressing Indian drama that examines issues of identity self-worth, masculinity and family breakdown in a country undergoing tumultuous change. The film centres on Delhi father and zip repairer or ‘chain walla’ Mahendra (Rajesh Tailang) who lives on the edge of poverty with his wife Suman (Tannishtha Chatterjee), his son Siddharth or siddhu as he
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