Category: Reviews

Film Review: Pay The Ghost (2015)

November 3, 2015
6 mins to read

“There’s a more than halfway decent movie here struggling to get out, it’s just buried under too much that lags and drags.” On paper, at least, Pay the Ghost has an impressive pedigree: in addition to the high quality source material in the shape of the excellent novella by Tim Lebbon, it’s directed by the …

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Grimmfest 2015

October 30, 2015
8 mins to read

For horror fans up in the north of England, and arguably across the country Grimmfest is an unmissable line-up of some of the best upcoming and ‘ones to watch’ of the genre. This years event once again saw some of films biggest and best showcase of horror films from across the globe, including Manchester film …

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Book Review: There’s a Bluebird in my Heart by Gary McMahon

October 27, 2015
4 mins to read

“If Bukowski was ‘a laureate of American lowlife’, then it would be fair to cast McMahon as a poet of the British soul.” The latest release from miserablist British author Gary McMahon is curiously entitled There’s a Bluebird in my Heart from White Noise Press. The title comes from the Charles Bukowski poem ‘Bluebird’ and …

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Film Review: V/H/S: Viral (2014)

October 23, 2015
6 mins to read

“In spite of its defects, V/H/S: Viral is still an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half.” Film fans, and cineastes of all stripes, have a theory about trilogies. In short, according to this theory, the first movie is iconic, the second is by far the best and the third falls far short …