Well. What can I say? I didn’t hate, I didn’t love it. Indifference should let me forget about it, and to some degree I do. I am under no...

I saw Belle last night. I would love to divulge my extensive and, even for me, salty interpretation of modern day, post-lockdown...

Ha Ha Ha! And here I thought I would be gushing full of words after the last article. Alas, I was emaciated of words, as much as the...

“If it’s possible for one person to be hurt by another, then it’s possible for that person to be healed by another.” – Hatori Sohma I'm...

“After all, it’s just a matter of flesh and blood. No more than a pile of bone and ash in the end right? There has to be something more...

Halloween! Where did you come from? Do I wish I could remember how I’ve spent the month I should have been indulging in all things...

The last stretch is upon me and I realised before that I got a little carried away, a little overexcited by the promise of some of the...

Here we go again: into part two. I don’t expect everything I have to offer will be to everyone’s taste, but when I thought about what I...

It has been a year. Ahh, to think how naïve I was when first assembling a list of top Japanese films. Fifteen was all I managed. FIFTEEN?...

It’s time. How long I have revelled in pondersome procrastination as I tried to conjure up a new article. Yet here it was, standing right...

Warning: Some Images NSFW Pedro Almodóvar’s latest cinematic feat is something monumental in his long career. A short film starring Tilda...

*Some images NSFW* An illicit affair between brother and sister. A cult whose violent form of recruitment is through rape. A houseboy...

**** As another couple of weeks pass and my inactivity on this blog grows ever more unsettling to myself alone - not to say that I have...

Cinema is art in motion, stories around the campfire retold in astounding ways, humanity playing out on the big screen, a spectacle to...

An avid lover of modern South Korean cinema - finding its social and political voice excitingly engaging, with great humour and brilliant...

“It is said that Bushmen have two types of hungry people... Little hungry and great hungry. Little hungry people are physically hungry....

I watch a lot of films and find myself moved far less than this blog suggests. Supposing I was a true critic I would fill these pages...

‘What grace have I to fall so in love?’ - Lizzie West Valentine’s Day is naff, we all know it. Coming from a bitter old hag like myself...

I love being pleasantly surprised. I’ve made no secret about my concerns over the future of creativity and storytelling. Rehashing old...

I was rather preoccupied in 2020, delving into the realms of Japanese cinema and best of all discovering Japan’s most subversive and...