Doll House | Hot House

I managed to avoid watching a single film released in 2020 this year – as with other things, lockdown has merely accelerated pre-existing tr...

The Alzabo Soup podcast has continued to exert an influence on my reading this year. The start of their coverage of Gene Wolfe's Book o...

I've listened to a lot of music this year, but very little of it was released in 2020. Partly that's down to lockdown leading me to ...

The film makes the perhaps obvious connection between a prostitute providing comfort and affirmation to her clients, and a priest ministerin...

So bizarre it almost defies attempts at interpretation. It's a romance without conversation – communication achieved through bottled wat...

Is the final musical number suggesting the possibility that things could have worked out between Seb and Mia if different choices were made?...

A highlight of Ozu's post-war work, and rather more didactic than the late films I'm familiar with. There is apparently a lively dis...

Released in the same year as Psycho  and in its own way just as influential on the horror genre. Part of the power of the film lies in it no...

Imagine if Argento's  Suspiria  was a comedy in the style of Evil Dead 2 , except even sillier. And then throw every garish cinematic tr...