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Seasoned genre film critic John Kenneth Muir once suggested that Ridley Scott's much maligned 2012 Alien prequel Prometheus had suffered a “death by a thousand nitpicks.”  There is no doubt that Prometheus suffered the full wrath of a…

French writer/director Julia Ducournau's Raw has won both prestigious critical acclaim and the kind of lurid anecdotal press that old-school schlock horrors wore as a badge of honour – paramedics were reportedly called to a screening during…

Released in 1995, Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell had a huge impact on some of Hollywood's more imaginative genre filmmakers, and is regarded today as one of the finest anime films ever made.  It isn't difficult to see why. The original…

Apart from a small minority of dissenting voices, Stranger Things has been the most popular television serial of the year.  It's certainly been the most talked about, and the show whose music and iconography have permeated the popular…

Michael Mann’s film adaptation of Miami Vice is ten years old as of July 28th.  It’s fair to say that Vice the movie didn’t quite achieve a stranglehold on the zeitgeist the way its television progenitor did back in the 80s.  The TV show,…

Folk horror is one of the strangest and most persistent cult sub-genres of the 21st century.  Though a somewhat broad term which is often freely applied, the cult derives its primary impetus from a cycle of uncanny pastoral horror films…