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In writer-director Prano Bailey-Bond’s debut feature Censor (2021), we meet Enid (Niamh Algar), a pleasant young woman with a not-so-pleasant job: gutting the good parts of bad movies. Enid is a censor. She clearly loves her work though, or at least believes in its value, and if she […]
This week the Gutter’s own Angela has wandered up the stairs of an ruined mansion carrying only a candelabra. She’ll be back next month. In the meantime, ponder and enjoy her piece on Candyman (1990)! ~~~ Bernard Rose’s Clive Barker’s Candyman is an intensely 1990s film. Characters smoke […]
So, let’s talk Sparks. What is/who are Sparks? To some extent, no one really knows, still, even after the release of director Edgar Wright’s lovingly comprehensive documentary about the band, The Sparks Brothers (2021). While the band has spanned many lineups and genres from the early 1970s all […]
Last time on Angela Reviews a Resident Evil Game…actually, I was talking about the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake and its implications for the validity of video games as art. (TL;DR: they are, nyah, nyah.) But the time before that, I took a good long look at 2017’s […]
In Saint Maud (2019), the first feature from writer-director Rose Glass, a troubled young hospice nurse becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s eternal soul. It’s a hefty premise that might feed into an Oscar contender, the kind with its stars looking skyward past each other on a […]
Content warning for discussions of rape, domestic abuse, child abuse, and spoilers for Ju-On: Origins, too. If you’re familiar at all with Japanese horror, you know Ju-On (2000), its sequels, and English remakes in The Grudge series. Quite possibly you even have chips to lay down on Team […]
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