Category: Event Coverage
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By Ros Tibbs A powerhouse in B-movies, cult cinema and direct-to-video sci-fi, action flicks, filmmaker Albert Pyun has has 40 eccentric and dazzling features listed in his credits, beginning with his director debut The Sword and the Sorcerer in 1982, and ending with 2017’s Interstellar Civil War, released five years before his passing. Pyun’s cinematic…
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by Nathan Brown It’s around 2045 on a busy Fringe Friday in Edinburgh that I find myself trying to find the Leith Theatre, hurtling down Leith Walk, somewhere I’ve been several times before without realising quite how long it is. The stakes might not be quite as high as during the opening chase sequence of Trainspotting, the…
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by Isabelle Cocozza Cinema Rediscovered is a festival consisting of only repertory cinema, including premieres of recently restored and recut films or rare films rediscovered through its programming strands. I was lucky enough to attend and review the films I caught over the 5 day festival, including fun features from Josie and the Pussycats (2001)…
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by Aninda Provati I had the chance to attend “Breaking Barriers: Colombians in the British film industry” at the University of Westminster on 16th July. It was part of the first edition of London Columbian Film Festival (LCFF 2026) hosted by Col Films Limited. The festival runs from 13th July to 26th July with…
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by Amal Brepotra If you’re anything of a cult film enthusiast, then Salome is a name you’ve probably heard of. If it isn’t, then it most certainly will be soon enough. From Alla Nazimova’s and Charles Bryant’s 1922 silent reimaging to Oscar Wilde’s once-forbidden play, the biblical figure of Salome has fledged across cinema reimagings…
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by Ros Tibbs Being a true and well rounded cinephile calls for a persistent and educated commitment to everything the artform of filmmaking has to offer. It is not the repeated watching and mentioning of Coppola, Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini, Kubrick or Welles which carve out a film goer worthy of such titling, but instead the…
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by Laura Barnes Read Part 1 here. Merkurio “You have a black heart!” Sébastien Pesle’s Merukurio is a curious little thing. With its minimalistic dialogue and its black and white colouring, it’s almost like a Charlie Chaplin film – that is, if Charlie Chaplin starred in movies about male escorts getting kidnapped and enslaved by…
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by Laura Barnes Depravity merchants Interference Films are back, and this time they’ve taken over Manchester’s Cultplex Cinema for a whole weekend. The result is a room full of black t-shirts, skull tattooes, and Grindcore bursting from the speakers. We’re lightyears away from Sundance with this one, folks. Interference Fest is about showcasing the best…
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by Ros Tibbs Pushing transgressive, Queer, anti-establishment and punk art into the filmic spotlight, legendary cult director John Waters proved his status as a culturally significant filmmaker when he kicked off the 1970s decade with 1970’s Multiple Maniacs, an independent black-comedy starring the director’s muses Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey,…
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by Nathan Brown Bloodsuckers, flesheaters and nymphomaniacs: horror cinema has long traded on a primal fear of uncontained female appetites. Afterall, in a world where women’s desire for food, sex and capital has been fiercely policed by patriarchal social norms, what could be scarier than a hungry woman? – Dundead Film Festival I first attended…
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