Best film I watched in December turned out to be one of the best of 2023. Godzilla Minus One was a shining ray of light in a mostly depress...

An incredible year for boutique label releases. You know it's a bumper year when both the Pete Walker and Coffin Joe box sets being de...

Annus horribilis for the House of Mouse, but misery really does love company since a bunch of other studios were also responsible for some h...

Not quite ready to close the book on 2023, but only a fool would pretend it wasn't a disappointing year for films. Don't believe me?...

For every recent film misfire, there will always be the assurance of an older gem awaiting discovery. At the risk of it sounding cliched, t...

Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, 2023) How ironic is it that a Japanese creature feature, with a modest budget of approximately $15M, d...

Discovering the films of Peter Watkins was something of a revelation for me. Both Punishment Park and The War Game were the best films I w...

When Evil Lurks (Demián Rugna, 2023) Hollywood has commonly been lacking the required mean-spirited streak to appease desensitised fans of  ...

The cold-blooded and methodical protagonist. The hit that goes wrong. The friend or foe dilemma. The big payback. Stop me if you've seen...

LOLA (Andrew Legge, 2022/2023) Last year's Deadstream proved that no matter how passé first person/found footage films have become, a w...

The O.G. Thanksgiving trailer featured in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's spectacularly indulgent Grindhouse (2007) double-...

The two highest ranked films watched in October were Peter Bogdonavich's Targets and Brian Duffield's No One Will Save You . The la...

The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green, 2023) When the trailer to Kitty Green's psychological thriller The Royal Hotel (2023), blipped its way on...

No One Will Save You (Brian Duffield, 2023) Science-fiction has become a ubiquitous film genre ever since nerd culture became the norm thank...

When Harry met Julie! Steve De Jarnatt's forgotten eighties thriller Miracle Mile  may have bombed at the box office, but no film has pu...