In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: a trifecta of music videos by Michael Gracey. Michael Gracey started out as a special effects artist, before making it big as a music video and advertisement director. The horrifying Evian babies on roller skates commercial, that’s him. Not yet a household name as a director, he is a commercially savvy director to watch, thanks to his break-out hit The Greatest Showman, and the buzzy Better Man, also known as the Robbie Williams as a chimpanzee musical biopic. Extra information for Americans: Robbie Williams is a huge popstar in Europe, and not, in fact, a chimpanzee. Michael Gracey’s work thus far has showcased two things, both…
Natalie Bailey’s brash comedy stars Jackie Van Beek, Jeremy Lindsay-Taylor, Josephine Blazier, and Hannah Diviney.
Horror comes in many forms: docu-drama, anthology, and comic (?!).
Odessa Young and Joe Coe star; Thordur Palsson directs the chilly, slow-burn horror thriller.
Hello all of you readers, we have officially entered 2025 so it’s time to have a look back at 2024. We asked everyone here what their favorites were, and 24 writers gave a list. On those were a grand total of 96 films, a lot more than last year. That means our votes were spread across a wider field, and 2024 was probably a harder year than most for everyone to keep up with. As always, any ratings and listings like these are dubious at best. It’s not a race where you can see who reached the finish first, and judging art is mostly subjective anyway. I mean, nobody has seen all films this year, and some of us saw several titles in earlier years,…
Happy New Year everyone. 2025 over at Screambox kicks off in the middle of the month with the psychological horror flick, Lizzie Lazarus. Both the original and remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Blood Feast will follow. Then a quartet of giallo flicks close off the final weekends of the month. A quiet start to a year that will no doubt bring more horror hits to the streamer as the year progresses. SCREAMBOX January Streaming Line-Up Includes BLOOD FEAST, LIZZIE LAZARUS, January Giallo SCREAMBOX has revealed the new films that are joining the horror streaming service in January, including Blood Feast, Lizzie Lazarus, and several giallo movies. The people in Hell are starving while the people in Heaven feast in Lizzie…
The second season of Shudder’s survey series, Horror’s Greatest, starts streaming today, a continuation of the series that debuted at the end of Summer on the platform. Once again we head back into the fray, surveying subgenres and themes that have run throughout the horror genre for decades. This season the themes are animal attacks, bad romance, hidden gems, film scores and space horror. As before, it’s great to see our friends on the inside participate in the series. They’re there alongside other peers, a slew of academics, and our horror paragons and heroes. A noted new face among the mix this time was series composer Ceiri Torjussen, whose own list of musical accomplishments over the last twenty-four years is staggering to behold. Torjussen…
Hyun Bin, Park Jeong-min and Jeon Yeo-been star in Woo Min-ho’s historical drama.
Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham direct the new Ardman animated adventure, starring Ben Whitehead.