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FULL MOON IN GEMINI
Saturday 15th December - The Cold Moon - Plentiful If you’re reading this, you made it through 2024 and here we are on the cusp of this...
riawoodburn
Dec 11, 20242 min read


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...
riawoodburn
Nov 22, 20202 min read


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 21, 20202 min read


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, 20202 min read


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, 20202 min read


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 20, 20202 min read


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, 20202 min read


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 19, 20202 min read


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
Nov 18, 20203 min read


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 11, 20201 min read


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
May 2, 20201 min read


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 21, 20202 min read

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
Apr 5, 20201 min read


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 12, 20201 min read


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
Mar 1, 20201 min read


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
Feb 28, 20202 min read


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 24, 20202 min read


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
Jan 9, 20201 min read


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 30, 20191 min read


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
Dec 4, 20191 min read
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