★★★★☆ The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s reputation certainly precedes it. This October, a new cinematic rerelease of Richard O’Brien’s 1975 cult classic will see throngs of fans fastening their suspender belts and donning shiny, gold speedos as they pay tribute […]
★★★☆☆ A disturbed and deeply delusional suburban horror, Richard Bates Jr.’s directorial debut Excision (2012) is a fine example of genre filmmaking that’s positively brooding with tongue-in-cheek satire and vulgar, macabre imagery. Pauline (AnnaLynne McCord, in a surprisingly ‘dressed down’ performance) […]
★★★★☆ A heartfelt and profoundly affecting exposé into the daily struggle faced by Uganda’s severely persecuted LGBT community, Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall’s Call Me Kuchu (2012) stands head and shoulders above a great deal of this year’s more […]
★★☆☆☆ Originally written in the late 1990s, Dennis Gansel’s vampire film We Are the Night (2010) – starring German arthouse star Nina Hoss – spent almost a decade in development hell before the success of the Twilight franchise reopened the […]
