Weird Features
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...
Playback: Yorgos Lanthimos, Disorder and Discomfort, from KINETTA to BUGONIA
Yorgos Lanthimos delights in discomfort. Lanthimos built a career on ritualized absurdity and moral distortion, spinning stories where love, control, and social order are pushed to the brink of the surreal. From Dogtooth's domestic isolation to Poor Things's sexually-charged, Frankensteinian...
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,...
Friday One Sheet: BUGONIA
Have we featured key art from pretty much every Yorgos Lanthimos film since this column's inception? Probably. The work of designer Vasilis Marmatakis is always striking, and his inclination towards verticality always captures my attention. For Bugonia, a loose remake...
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...
Pretty Packaging: THE KEEP Cross Replica Limited Edition Is A Keeper
Physical media may be considered a niche market nowadays, but if you're part of that niche, life is rich (or at least you'll need to be...). There is no shortage of great editions available in different formats. Most of my...
Friday One Sheet: SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE
The poster for Greek horror science-fiction hazy tale of unexplored grief, She Loved Blossoms More, has worthy-weird poster, with slime-green text, and a textured background of dried and oxidized blood. And of course, the key and central image of the...
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...
Friday One Sheet: COPPER
This highly unusual poster instantly communicates that it is for a highly unusual film. Completely at odds with the look of the film (which is dust and tan) or the title of the film, Copper, the washed out blue looks...
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...
Locarno 2025 Preview: Kechiche, Jude, Komljen, Koberidze and Rivers Lead the Competition
At a moment when global cinema is reexamining its aesthetic language and moral imagination, the 78th Locarno Film Festival unveiled a main competition shaped by formal audacity, political introspection, and a deepening search for emotional and historical truth.
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...
Pretty Packaging: THE QUATERMASS (E)XPERIMENT a.k.a. THE CREEPING UNKNOWN
(Here comes the Hammer!) When the John Gore Organization announced in August 2023 that they had acquired the rights and name of British horror legend Hammer Films and Studios, this raised a few eyebrows. What would they do with all...
Sound And Vision: Darren Aronofsky
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Lou Reed and Metallica's The View, directed by Darren Aronofsky. Darren Aronofsky is known for his swerves as...
Fantasia 2025: 25 Films To Watch in '25 - Raising the Bloody Curtain on Genre Film Paradise
Fantasia is nearly upon us, and with almost two hundred feature films spread out over three weeks of cinematic bliss, we thought you could use a bit of a roadmap to success in what to look forward to at this...
