Godzilla Minus Zero Demands to Be Heard – A Review
There is a noise in Godzilla Minus Zero that I would happily pay to hear again. Ghidorah's attacks arrive like gunfire in a library, a tremendous crack followed by an electrical fizz that disappears almost before the impact has registered. I was shocked by how...
The War of the Elves and Sauron: A Brief Introduction
The third season of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premieres in less than a week, on November 11. The central conflict of this season is described in the official synopsis: In Season Three, Middle-earth is at war. Five years have...
Wild Horse Nine, The Gift that Kept on Giving – A Review
This review contains no spoilers. I went to my first Screen Unseen yesterday, with no idea what I was about to watch. It turned out to be Wild Horse Nine. I could get used to this. Martin McDonagh sends Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich to Rapa Nui...
The Empire That Ate Cinema: The Parasitic Hegemony
In 2023, the livelihoods of thousands of British film and television workers were firmly in the hands of American studios and unions. Hollywood's writers went on strike in May, followed by its actors in July, and productions across Britain began shutting down. British crews, employed...
Fellowship Film Club: Ep. 4 – The Shining (1980) / Sunshine (2007)
Two isolated crews. Two harrowing descents into madness. Chiv and Ryan return for the latest episode of the Fellowship Film Club, diving into Stanley Kubrick’s iconic horror masterwork The Shining (1980) and Danny Boyle’s sci-fi thriller Sunshine (2007). In this episode, the hosts explore how both...
