Reviews: Film
Figures in the Landscape: Rituals, Wilderness, and Canadian Cinema
Jennifer Wallis watches Rituals (1977) and explores Canadian wilderness on film in the tax shelter era.
Jennifer Wallis
27th June 2022
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Jennifer Wallis watches Rituals (1977) and explores Canadian wilderness on film in the tax shelter era.
Lust for Life, a 1956 biopic of artist Vincent Van Gogh, was shot on redundant film stock at director Vincente Minnelli’s insistence. Why?
One special effect would dominate the film — the parting of the Red Sea. Julian Upton crosses Cecil B. DeMille’s Biblical 1956 epic, The Ten Commandments.
To coincide with the launch of the revised and updated Offbeat, a series of podcasts relating to the the book presented by some of the contributors.
Morgan Jones looks at Last Night in Soho to find a clumsy but unabashedly enjoyable psychedelic horror film about gender.
JENNIFER WALLIS on Andrew Sinclair’s 1973 film, Blue Blood, its real-life and fictional inspirations, and — more importantly perhaps — an arresting performance by Oliver Reed.
What is a custom movie? David Kerekes looks at Mail Order Murder: the Story of W.A.V.E. Productions and talks to filmmaker, William Hellfire.
In the final instalment of her Fear Street review trilogy, Lakkaya Palmer considers the history lessons contained in Fear Street: Part Three – 1666.
In her second blog on Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, Lakkaya Palmer reviews the 1978 instalment, where slasher tropes abound…
It’s made a bloody splash on Netflix this July, but is the Fear Street trilogy just for kids? Lakkaya Palmer argues there’s much more to it, but reader beware … this contains spoilers.
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
