Sound And Vision: Dick Maas
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several music videos for Golden Earring, directed by Dick Maas. Dutch cult director Dick Maas made a...
Sound And Vision: Sam Raimi
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at two music videos by Sam Raimi. In between Evil Dead II and Darkman Sam Raimi made two different...
Sound And Vision: Dash Shaw
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Sigur Rós' Seraph, directed by Dash Shaw. Dash Shaw made a huge impression with his two feature films,...
Sound And Vision: Tony Scott
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at George Michael's One More Try, directed by Tony Scott. If I associate Tony Scott with two things, it's...
Sound And Vision: Eskil Vogt
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at White Birch's Seer Believer, directed by Eskil Vogt. Eskil Vogt is mostly known as a screenwriter, who has...
MotelX 2025 Review: THE LAST SACRIFICE Has A Few Aces Up Its Sleeve
On Valentine's Day 1945, on a hill in the Cotswolds, England, the 74-year old farmer Charles Walton is found dead. You suspect that a documentary with this premise might be just a true crime doc, but The Last Sacrifice...
MotelX 2025 Review: THE RUN Is Another Stab At The Interactive Movie
The interactive movie has had a history since Bob Gale's Mr. Payback and games like Dragon's Lair and probably even way before that. But it never exceeded beyond a gimmick. That is until the game industry found ways to make...
MotelX 2025 Review: ALMA VIVA Is Another Winning Coming-Of-Age-Horror
Young Salomé has a great bond with her grandmother. She helps her grandmother out with seances, as her grandmother blends her Catholic religion with the older, more paganistic roots of the Portuguese countryside, and provides her services as someone who...
Sound And Vision: Lloyd Kaufman
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Entombed's Seeing Red, directed by Lloyd Kaufman. Lloyd Kaufman is the big brain behind cheap budget genre studio...
MotelX 2025 Review: Norbert Pfaffenbichler's 2551-TRILOGY Transcends A Depraved Hellscape
Norbert Pfaffenbichler's 2551-Trilogy is something else entirely. Consisting of three films, all running for less than 90 minutes (The Kid is even only 65 minutes long), it is still so heady and heavy that the entirety of it is a...
MotelX 2025 Review: CRENDICES Thrives On Local Superstitions
Crendices, meaning 'superstitions', premièring at the Portuguese horror film festival Motel X, is a very local film. It hails from Madeira, an island that is part of Portugal, and that has local practices that are extremely specific to that region....
MotelX 2025 Review: KARMADONNA Is A Morally Murky Thrill Ride
Aleksander Radivojevic is best known as a co-writer for A Serbian Film. That film is infamous for its brutal portrayal of Serbia, pulling no punches, and becoming so dark the contents of the film became a meme in and off...
MotelX 2025 Review: BUZZHEART Makes Meeting The Parents Horrifying
After a striking opening scene, in which a young man and a young woman connect in a massage parlor after a clandestine handjob, and she invites him over to meet her parents immediately, the credits of Buzzheart start. They consist...
MotelX 2025 Review: ANYTHING THAT MOVES Has Sex And Murder On The Brain
Anything That Moves is that rare thing: a truly bizarre oddity of a film, for better or worse. Best described as a pastiche of sexploitation films, mixed with a serial killer thriller, it is something truly special: a sex-positive film...
Sound And Vision: Celine Song
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Laufey's Goddess, directed by Celine Song. Celine Song, in just two films and one music video, has carved...
Sound And Vision: Adam Curtis
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Weyes Blood's God Turn Me Into A Flower, directed by Adam Curtis. As a director Adam Curtis is...
Sound And Vision: Kon Satoshi
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Hirasawa Susumu's Forces, from the Berserk soundtrack, directed by Kon Satoshi. This week it has been fifteen years...
Sound And Vision: Jake Schreier
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several music videos by Jake Schreier. Currently Jake Schreier is Hollywood's (and especially Marvel's) new go-to-guy, after the...
Sound And Vision: Takashi Miike
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Koji Kikkawa's Pandora, directed by Takashi Miike. Takashi Miike has directed over a hundred movies, but to my...
Sound And Vision: Samuel Bayer
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several music videos directed by Samuel Bayer. Samuel Bayer is one of the biggest names in the music...
