Fright Club Friday: Dog Soldiers
Dog Soldiers (2002) Let’s get the long weekend rolling with a fun, bloody, exciting trip to the Scottish highlands. Wry humor, impenetrable accents, a true sense of isolation and blood…read more →
Archive For August, 2014
A Tight Squeeze
As Above, So Below by Hope Madden A friend of mine went to Paris for her honeymoon, convincing her husband to tour the catacombs beneath the city while there. It’s…read more →
The Price of Prestige
Ivory Tower by George Wolf Enough about your school’s football team. Do you have a climbing wall? Swimming pool for the luxury dorm? If not, then your school…read more →
Late August Man
The November Man by Hope Madden Somehow, it’s easy to lower your expectations in August, and a film that would seem stale and dated in, say, May or even November,…read more →
A Fresh Take on History For Your Queue
Who’s in the mood for a couple of fascinating historical dramas, the kind that make you rethink your history lessons? Because Belle, releases to DVD today, and it’s the fact-based…read more →
Revisiting One Rotten Town
Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For by Hope Madden Remember The Matrix? So cool! Full of heady ideas with a visual execution like nothing we’d ever seen before,…read more →
The Passion of The Streak
When the Game Stands Tall by Hope Madden The last time director Thomas Carter made a feature film, it was the inspiring true story of high school coach Ken Carter…read more →
Modern Martyrdom
Calvary by Hope Madden Has the Catholic Church so comprehensively betrayed the nation of Ireland that it would take the second coming of the Messiah to set things straight? Maybe.…read more →
It’s a Wonderful So-Called Life
If I Stay by George Wolf Is it just for the cash, or do the people behind these teen romance fantasies actually believe they are being profound? The…read more →
Fright Club Live: Calvaire (The Ordeal)
The Ordeal (Calvaire) (2004) This week’s Fright Club – 9pm at the Drexel Theatre in Bexley – unspools the 35mm print of Calvaire. It’s the first time the film has…read more →