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SHORT OF THE WEEK: MY CURRENT HORROR FAVES
Film shorts have their own unique identity, a craft all of their own. They are stand-alone features and stories in their own right and...
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riawoodburn
- Nov 21, 2020
- 2 min
SCARE ME (2019)
Scare Me is a joyful ride by writer/director, and lead actor Josh Rubens, whose one-man-band style achieves a total creative synergy. Set...
riawoodburn
- Nov 20, 2020
- 2 min
REVENGE (2017)
A gritty game of cat and mouse, Revenge is Lara Croft gone rogue. Hollywood has given us an onslaught of slasher horror films where young...
riawoodburn
- Nov 20, 2020
- 2 min
SHIRLEY JACKSON'S THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959)
Heralded as a classic gothic horror story and one of the best of Shirley Jackson’s, The House on Haunted Hill is seen as the first...
riawoodburn
- Nov 20, 2020
- 2 min
THE WIND (2018)
Set in a stark backdrop of the remote early 19th century American territories, The Wind offers a slice of history in this western-style...
riawoodburn
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
UNDER THE SHADOW (2016)
Set in 1988 Tehran and within the juncture of the Iran and Iraq war, Under the Shadow tells the story of Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her...
riawoodburn
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
THE TURNING (2020)
Under ‘normal’ non-Covid circumstances The Turning would certainly have been a cinema trip for me, but instead became a rented home...
riawoodburn
- Nov 18, 2020
- 3 min
VIVARIUM (2019)
Since grappling with the global pandemic, and with us all having to now navigate a new lockdown reality, Vivarium’s sparse utopia doesn’t...
riawoodburn
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (2003) REVIEW
Tragic and classical, The Tale of Two Sisters (2003), has stood the test of time. Steeped in mystery with few certainties; teenage Su-mi...
riawoodburn
- May 2, 2020
- 1 min
come to daddy (2019) review
Come to Daddy (2019) is a family reunion gone bad. When Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood) arrives at his estranged father’s sea cabin for a...
riawoodburn
- Apr 21, 2020
- 2 min
CASTLEROCK SEASON 2 (2019)
Annie Wilkes returns, and my god we have missed her. Having watched Misery more times than I can care to remember, any rekindling of...
riawoodburn
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
POSSUM (2018) REVIEW
Few films are brave enough to construct a complete overtake of a theme like Possum (2018). Right from the beginning, never-ending you...
riawoodburn
- Mar 12, 2020
- 1 min
KNIVES OUT (2019) REVIEW
Fun, frolics, and murder, Knives Out (2019), offers a detective drama with a huge dose of comedy. This jovial hunt for the killer of...
riawoodburn
- Mar 1, 2020
- 1 min
THE EXORCIST (2017) review
Father Tomas (Alfonso Herrera) and Father Marcus (Ben Daniels) are back with a vengeance. Season 2, although a period after the first is...
riawoodburn
- Feb 28, 2020
- 2 min
The pale horse (2019) review
The BCC’s two-part adaptation of Agatha Christies The Pale Horse (2020) is a slick production set in a high-class 1960s London. A typical...
riawoodburn
- Jan 24, 2020
- 2 min
THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (2016) review
Cool, calm, and collected law student Christine Reade (Riley Keough), in Season 1 of The Girlfriend Experience (2016) is pulled into the...
riawoodburn
- Jan 9, 2020
- 1 min
SISTERS (1972) REVIEW
Sisters (1972) plays on the art of assumption, if someone looks good, then we are less likely to see them as a threat. The film charters...
riawoodburn
- Dec 30, 2019
- 1 min
A DARK SONG (2016) REVIEW
A Dark Song (2017) is my favourite kind of horror, psychological with a mix of occultism. The premise is promising, a grieving mother...
riawoodburn
- Dec 4, 2019
- 1 min
RAW (2016) review
Adolescence is a bitch and so it seems are your family when you are growing up. Raw (2016) follows teenage Justine (Garance Marillier), a...
riawoodburn
- Nov 24, 2019
- 1 min
LADY MACBETH (2016) REVIEW
Passionate and raw, Lady Macbeth (2016) excels on all levels. A period drama set in 19th century industrial Britain but without the...
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