FEAR(S) 0F THE DARK
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Black and white seems to be the new colour when it comes to adult animated movies from France, especially those with a comics source or styling.
Review by Paul Gravett
Black and white seems to be the new colour when it comes to adult animated movies from France, especially those with a comics source or styling.
Review by Paul Gravett
Status, and the authority associated with it, is everything here, and to Park’s dismay, the flashy white Mercedes he is driving loses out to Moon-jae’s uniform. This is the start of A Bloody Aria’s anarchic, absurdist, clever, complex and darkly funny investigation of the power games that dominate human relationships.
Review by Virginie Sélavy
You’d be forgiven for thinking that a film about porn and masturbation set in Los Angeles would be the latest release from the Seth Rogen/Judd Apatow school of romantic comedy. But Good Dick is a subversive, refreshing take on the genre – a touching and funny look at the confused relationship between two highly damaged people.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Although he made his feature debut with The Cell in 2000, Tarsem has been working as director of commercials and music videos since the mid-90s and this is clearly visible in the lavish credit sequence that opens his second, self-funded effort The Fall.
Review by James Merchant
While police corruption and the divide between rich and poor might not be original subject material in recent Latin American cinema, Uruguayan-born director Rodrigo Plá has crafted an innovative, compelling addition to the burgeoning genre with his debut feature, La Zona.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Valerie, like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, is oddly matter of fact and accepting of the deep strangeness that envelops her. Thus, the dangling corpse of the priest who has tried to molest her is all in a week’s work for Valerie.
Review by Stephen Thomson
A commerce-crazy America with a widening gap between rich and poor is the backdrop of John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi action movie They Live.
Review by Lisa Williams
Eraserhead sets the tone for Lynch’s career, the Emphasis upon 1950s Americana, the many dreamlike slow-motion scenes with constant industrial rumblings and hissings always subliminally present.
Review by Franz Kerola
Despite its lurid title and its standard plot (probably pitched as Shane meets High Noon – with harpoons!!!), Terror in a Texas Town stands as the epitome of these developments. Written by perhaps the most famous of McCarthy’s Hollywood victims, Dalton Trumbo, the film comes with a heavy dose of both psychology and politics.
Review by Paul Huckerby
In the near future, a theme park has been created which lets visitors experience the past by interacting with living, breathing creatures. However, something goes wrong and before long the exhibits start killing the guests…
Review by Alex Fitch