I was pretty lucky to see the latest film to be released by the resurrected Hammer Films before Christmas last year. It is a haunting and harrowing film. It’s set in a village where the recently deceased can be brought back for three days. It’s very, very good and out in the UK on the […]

Like all great writers, the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, creates his own universe in which his eclectic bunch of characters run amok. It’s a slightly-cartoon world populated by stock genre characters such as boxers, druggies, psychos, femme fatales, gangsters, assassins and petty crooks. Tarantino uses genre cinema as a spring board for his own imagination. He […]

Mel Gibson has teamed up with Jodie Foster for a new black comedy drama about a depressed man who uses a puppet to communicate with the world. The Beaver is Foster’s first time behind the camera since 1995’s Home for the Holidays and given Gibson’s off-screen derailment, surely a must-see. The film is showing out […]