The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) I’ll never be able to listen to Kim Wilde’s ‘Kids in America’ in the same way, ever again. For most of writer-director Bryan Bertino’s 2008 debut The Strangers we were able to…just about…tell ourselves that these three masked figures who were invading a family home were — at the very worst — extremely sadistic pranksters. Talk about optimistic. Then that genuinely...
Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Nemo: The Roses of Berlin As with Heart of Ice, the first of writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O’Neill’s Janni Dakkar/Nemo outings, the slim (52 pages) volume at hand is enjoyable enough, even though it feels lightweight next to its big brothers in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen universe. Nemo: The Roses of Berlin moves forward thirty-five years to find Captain Janni nearing fifty, still plowing murderously away at...
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) It’s neither fair nor helpful to compare Avengers: Infinity War to any other film, because there never has been one quite like it. That’s not to comment on whether you’ll find it worthwhile waiting for – although I don’t see how any fan of this material could fail to be totally satisfied –, it’s just a simple fact. This is a film that is the culmination (to date!) of a series of...
Truth or Dare (2018)
Truth or Dare (2018) “The young actors of today are so ghastly; uninteresting; boring, tedious. They know nothing about their culture; they know nothing about the great legends of the past…” So says the playwright-actor Steven Berkoff, obviously holding his words in check. But watch this clip to see what else was bugging him: Bejeezus, only for he said all of that three years ago I would have thought that he was...
Wildling (2018)
There is only Anna and Daddy: Wildling (2018) …and here is a film that I’m going to be raving about for the rest of 2018. Wildling is a startlingly assured debut from director Fritz Böhm, who also co-writes the screenplay with Florian Eder; and it is probably the most visually luscious horror film I’ve seen in years. Although beneath it all it isn’t really a horror film at all. I suppose that at some stage the tag ‘werewolf’...
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