This month’s Guest Star is Jeffery X Martin. Read more of Jeffery X Martin’s words about music, movies, and professional wrestling at Biff Bam Pop! ~~~ “Whether we like it or not, the most important scientific problem we’re going to face in the last third of this [20th] […]
Gaddaar is maybe the best Hindi film of 1973, if not the first half of the 1970s, that you probably haven’t seen. Maybe I’m wrong and you already love it as much as I do, but whenever I bring up this movie, I’m mostly met with blank stares […]
Tamiya Iemon is the absolute worst. I have seen multiple adaptations of Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, from Keisuke Kinoshita’s Shinshaku Yotsuya Kaidan / Yotsuya Kaidan Part 1 & Part II (1949) to Nobuo Nakagawa’s 1959 adaptation, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan / The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959) to Takashi Miike’s […]
Sachin Hingoo runs down some of his favourite things on screens big and small in 2024!
This week Guest Star Kate Laity writes about Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife (1943) and two lesser known adaptations. ~~~ I’m currently writing about Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife and the 1962 film based on it, Night of the Eagle, AKA, Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962). It’s a pity there are […]
Anyone that knows me will tell you that I’m a sucker for an unconventional animal-themed film and while it doesn’t have the in-your-face animated aesthetic of last year’s Flow, György Pálfi’s new film ‘Hen’ chicken-scratches that itch in a major way.