Cryptic, understated and thought-provoking, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s work probes the darkest, most unfathomable depths of human life.
Feature by Virginie Sélavy

Having started as an underground film venue 25 years ago, the Other Cinema also became a DVD label in 2003, releasing the works of experimental filmmakers such as Craig Baldwin, JX Williams and Bill Morrison. Alex Fitch talks to co-founder Noel Lawrence and finds out more about their ‘mad, bad and rad’ aesthetic.
Interview by Alex Fitch

With ever decreasing opportunities for independent films to be shown in cinemas, festivals such as the End of the Pier are a crucial platform for new, low-budget and independent filmmakers.
Feature by James Merchant

A riotous collision of the artistic and the vulgar, The Smoking Cabinet’s festival of burlesque cinema offered movies, shorts and panel discussions on a variety of risqué topics.
Review by Philip Ilson

We’ve had our eye on Sir Francis Dashwood and the Hellfire Club for a while. They play a fantastic atmospheric surfy bluesy psychobilly punk concoction AND they list Alejandro Jodorowsky, Kenneth Anger and David Lynch among their influences: a band after our wicked heart… Here, frontman Sir Francis discusses his 10, er, 11 favourite movies.

Caroline has just been on the phone, comparing the last six months of 2007 with a chapter in Joris Karl Huysman’s novel A Rebours, where the hero, Des Esseintes, struggles to erase the scent of frangipane from his nostrils.
Column by CJ Magnet