FrightFest

Which is fair enough. Horses for courses, and all that. And I think we can all agree that they're better than the I Know What You Did... sequels.

Plus they're making the genre profitable.

I should have clarified that my emphasis was on the hideously reductive rather than the gore-porn . Which is fact by the way. It's "pornography" by its standard definition, defining works that "have little or no artistic merit" and not using the term as a derogatory label a la Ma...

I thought it was pretty awful. An entire picture predicated on the off-chance your unpredictable disciple is going to go off the rails at the exact moment your new victim breaks free ? Urgh. A new victim, by the way, who you must have been able to keep awesomely close tabs on from your hospital bed ...

As a Kevin Tenney fan, I thought it was going to be about his Halloween night opus (that picture picture, Witchboard and its first sequel and Witchtrap are sharp, pacy b pictures in the best sense. And Peacekeeper plays a great double bill with Craig Baxley's Dark Angel .) Sadly I was mistaken. But ...

Count me as another participant in the Children Of Men love pile-on. Ludicrously accomplished. Also, I have no trouble believing Children Of Men 's single take sequences were just that. DP Emmanuel Lubezki had a special rig built for the car to facilitate a lot of that fiendish movement - Dario Arge...

Saw Fearless last night, which made me want to go up a mountain and live out my days planting rice whilst enjoying the piquant breezes assailng the rolling contryside at periodic intervals. Very Zen. I thought it was a quite wonderful picture actually, with comparisons drawn against Hero rather unfa...