Halloween is approaching and while it might have been pinched from Europe via the US on ‘Built For Speed’ we appreciate a celebration of spookiness. Accordingly, this week we pummel you with a selection of scary tunes from the likes of Danzig, Alice Cooper, Roky Erickson and many more. We also take a look at the sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic
Read moreDirected by Bradley Cooper and starring Cooper and Lady Gaga, this fourth film version of A Star is Born is an effectively raw if at times cliched take on what is both a doomed romance and cautionary tale about the price of fame. Cooper plays old school rock star Jackson Maine, a prodigiously talented singer/ song writer but also an
Read moreThe moon-shot movie has almost become a separate genre and with films the calibre of The Right Stuff, Apollo 13 and Hidden Figures, a consistently good one. Now, Academy Award-winning director of La La Land and Whiplash, Damien Chazelle has entered the space-race with First Man, the story of the original moon landing. Diverting from the slick style of most
Read moreAmerican Animals is a heist film with a difference. As the opening titles insist, it’s not based on a true story, it is true and almost qualifies as a docudrama as the real people involved periodically talk about the case. The film concerns a 2004 robbery in which four college students plotted to steal rare and extremely valuable books from
Read moreAussie outlaw bikie movie 1% plays like Sons of Anarchy fan fiction but with very transparent references to Macbeth and Of Mice and Men. While at times raw and visceral, this film isn’t the convincingly rugged urban drama for which writer Matt Nable and director Stephen McCallum appear to be aiming. The film stars Ryan Corr as Paddo, the second
Read moreVenom, the latest addition to the Marvel Comics cinematic universe probably won’t be well known to non-comic fans although the main creature briefly appeared in Spider-Man 3. Venom is in fact an alien parasite that hitches a ride to earth aboard a spacecraft and arrives with nefarious intentions for us puny humans. Essentially a slimy goo monster, the creature can
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