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Back in the day we used to get some really great Cold War thrillers, and other than maybe Spielbergs Bridge of Spies, there hasn’t been a decent one to fill the gaps in recent times. The secret police chasing around in the shadows to prevent either people escaping from the east (Think White Nights or Night Crossing) or stealing some secret weapon or document (See Firefox), Until now that is.…

Halloween Top 5: Art House Cinema Streaming Looking for all the great Halloween films and TV shows! Here is my TOP 5 from Curzon Home Cinema and BFI Player!

Curzon Home Cinema A Quiet Place II 2. Censor 3. Possessor 4. The Babadook 5. The Blair Witch Project BFI Player Suspiria 2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 3. Ring 4. Audition 5. The Devil’s Backbone Rentals Get Out 2. Censor 3. Let The Right One In 4. Psycho 5. Nosferatu As always keep geeking! Don’t forget to say Hi to me on my Social…

London Film Festival review: The Afterlight

The Afterlight is the last-chance saloon for the lost souls of film history. It’s a conceptual experiment, one that stalks the shadows of world cinema, gathering the spectres of movie stardom as it stumbles all the way to obsolescence. This new film from Charlie Shackleton, which played the Experimenta strand of the London Film Festival, is cast entirely from the grave and destined to…

London Film Festival review: The Real Charlie Chaplin

It’s a bold, almost alarming title. At this distance, can it be possible to uncover The Real Charlie Chaplin? And if there is something hidden in the biography this most famous of filmmakers, one that can without trepidation be called an icon, might those of us who love his films really want to know? Rest easy then, as this documentary by Peter Middleton and James Spinney (Notes on Blindness)…

London Film Festival review: Around Japan With a Movie Camera

The eye wants to travel, and never more so than in these pandemic times. Which means that this presentation from the BFI’s blockbuster Japan season is actually more welcome on its delayed arrival. In Around Japan With a Movie Camera, across an hour and a quarter, we are transported through space and time to Japan in the very early 20th century – the films span the period from 1901 to 1913. But…