Those guys out in the far East eh? They’re way ahead over there, what with their cars, their computers, their cigarette-per-person ratio, and most definitely, their films. While Western cinema has been shrugging its creative shoulders and piling-out re-make after re-make, big-budget epic war yarn after big-budget epic war yarn, Asian cinema have been making some of the most exciting, extreme, bizarre and compelling films in the world. The success of the East-Asian horror, i.e.; Ring, Dark Water, The Eye, [...]

There is currently an overabundance of films at our cinema screens stretching their arms high in the air, grunting ‘Pick me sir, I’m ever so good!’ at that little gold Academy Award fella; Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, Steven Spielberg’s Munich, Bennett Miller’s Capote, George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck… yet strangely not James Mangold’s excellent Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line, despite it’s nominations for Best Actor & Best Actress. A biopic, undoubtedly, makes for predictable viewing; so abundant [...]

Pop stars are like sharks. They look slimy, they’re attracted to the smell of blood, and if they stop moving, they’ll die. It’s all about re-invention. The Beatles went from ‘clean-cut youngsters’ to bearded, acid-scorched hippies; Bowie became an alien, Madonna went from hairy-pop starlet, to S&M-endorsing nymphomaniac, and then cockney. Even Blur’s Damon Albarn became a 2-dimentional representation of himself, and then became a cartoon… Alison Goldfrapp, originally a shadowy purveyor of soprano-seeped ambience as with debut album Felt [...]

You could be forgiven for passing on Wolf Creek. Reading the synopsis, you could even be forgiven for thinking you have already seen it. You know how it goes; attractive, carefree youngsters go for an adventure, there is laughter, drinking, partying… screaming, blood, dead people; all ‘based on true events’… However, what makes Wolf Creek so spectacularly chilling is the fact that it sits contentedly within its genre it takes you completely by surprise just how powerful it manages to [...]

“Time is running out”, “We’re accidents waiting to happen”, “I can see death’s beady eyes”, “This is fucked up, fucked up…” For almost 15 years now, Thom Yorke has been the siren singing in the shipwreck… he is not, it seems, a happy chappy. But wait, what’s that? You already knew? Of course you did, but still, for those who weren’t entirely convinced, we have a nine-tracked collection of dark, unsettling electronica, malevolent synths, cryptic, hopeless and beautiful songs; otherwise [...]