Friday, 18 November 2016

The Neon Demon - a quick review...


What's it about?
A delicate young girl enters the viper's nest of the Los Angeles modelling world where retirement often strikes just when you reach the legal drinking age, as sparkly dreams give way to DayGlo-coloured nightmares.
Who would I recognise in it?
Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, and others.
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?
Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) seems to be striving to reach a 'post-narrative' world of his own. The plot to The Neon Demon could be written on the back of a postage stamp (surprising, then, that the screenplay was penned by three people), with the climax never really daring to push narrative boundaries. Here, style is king - and doesn't it look (and sound) good? However, strip that away and - much like your average model's lunch - there's little nourishment on offer...

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Monday, 14 November 2016

Man-Size Edition: The Walking Dead 7x04 Memes...

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Click to Enlarge: Roaming for bargains, swingin' Lucille...

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Thursday, 10 November 2016

The Editor (Astron-6, 2014) DVD Review


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“Don't worry, we'll catch the killer that killed her.” Canadian film-making collective Astron-6 (Father's Day) return with their own curious take on the Italian genre films of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly the giallo film, with The Editor. Harnessing the bold colour splashes of Mario Bava, the shock gore geysers of Lucio Fulci, and the twisted narrative mystery of gialli icons Dario Argento and Ernesto Gastaldi, Astron-6 have donned black leather gloves and some impressively luxuriant moustaches for their own eroticised killer thriller...


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Monday, 7 November 2016

Easy Street Edition: The Walking Dead 7x03 Memes...

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Just the one this week ... kind of a tough episode for chuckles, wasn't it?

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Click to Enlarge: We've all been there...

Monday, 31 October 2016

Shiva Edition: The Walking Dead 7x02 Memes...

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A tiger-tastic episode of TWD, and a welcome chance to catch a breath after last week's harrowing events in the zombie apocalypse.

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Click to Enlarge: When you thought TWD couldn't get crazier...

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