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Director: Wes Anderson Stars: Bill Murray, Lyna Khoudri, Léa Seydoux I'm a sucker for the tangible and the tactile. A wardrobe in my bedroom is given over to physical media - rows of boutique blu-rays - and there are vinyl records... everywhere. Similarly, I'm far more inclined to delve into a deep-dive article in print …
Director: Edgar Wright Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg At the beginning of Lewis Allen's 1944 haunted house picture The Uninvited, Ray Milland's Roderick Fitzgerald advises us just why the Cornish seem so preoccupied with eerie tales and superstitions, "not because there are most ghosts here than other places, mind you. It's just that …
Year: 1973 Directors: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz Stars: Marianna Hill, Anitra Ford, Michael Greer Everyone has their favourite era for horror movies. For a lot of people, the 1980s are unbeatable, pumped up on the stylistic tics of MTV and the outré hair and fashion styles of the decade. For others, the 1930s offer all …
Director: Dash Shaw Stars: Zoe Kazan, Lake Bell, Angeliki Papoulia In the hand-drawn fantasia of Jane Samborski and Dash Shaw's Cryptozoo, mythical animals, chimeras and bestial hybrids - Cryptids - exist, gathered by humans to the titular sanctuary in the American MidWest; a kind of amusement park that creates revenue to help rescue more of …
Director: Julia Ducournau Stars: Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier, Agathe Rousselle There is a scene in David Cronenberg's vivid 1996 adaptation of JG Ballard's Crash in which Ballard (James Spader) and Vaughan (Elias Koteas) are speeding down a Toronto street on their way to a multi-storey car-park to pick up a prostitute. As the two talk about their …
Director: Denis Villeneuve Stars: Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa Frank Herbet's politically charged sci-fi tome Dune has brought a couple of auteurs low already. Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt at filming it infamously never even made it to fruition, while David Lynch's admirable swing led to the director vowing never to work within the studio system again. …
Director: Patrick Brice Stars: Sydney Park, Théodore Pellerin, Jesse LaTourette The slasher movie is back. There's a new Scream movie causing hubbub on the internet. Halloween Kills is doing monster box office in the face of a day-and-date streaming release. Even Chucky is back on telly in the rightful hands of Don Mancini. If our last decade saw …
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Director: David Gordon Green Stars: Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Anthony Michael Hall Earlier this week Captain Kirk himself was fired into space, in a sense completing a circuit that began back in the 1960s. Here on Earth, however, the raggedy-ass face of William Shatner is out there scaring the bejeezus out of teens in the …
It's October which, for some of us, means one thing - horror movies. As is fairly well represented here at The Lost Highway Hotel, horror movies are a pride and joy. Few genres are so daring, so inventive or so resonant with the world we live in. It's an area of filmmaking that encompasses our …
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Directors: Simon Barrett, Chloe Okuno, Timo Tjahjanto, Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows Stars: Anna Hopkins, Kimmy Choi, Kyal Legend For me, personally, there was a mini horror renaissance around 2012/2013 when I started to discover the genuinely diverse and even subversive scope of independent horror movies that were bubbling beneath the surface, spurred on by the …
Director: Kazik Radwanski Stars: Deragh Campbell, Dorothea Paas, Matt Johnson Surfacing in the UK on MUBI two years after its festival debut, Kazik Radwanski's Anne at 13,000 Ft. is a breath of fresh air searching for space in our current cinematic landscape. Over a trim 75 minutes, Radwanski presents us Anne (Deragh Campbell); a frustrated daycare …
Director: Lili Horvát Stars: Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó, Andor Lukáts Remember at the end of Before Sunrise, after Jesse and Celine had spent 24 hours bonding so completely on their journeys around Vienna, when they made a pact to meet up 6 months later without swapping phone numbers? Sure you do. Now imagine if Before Sunset …
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Year: 1973 Director: Eiichi Yamamoto Voice Stars: Aiko Nagayama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Katsuyuki Itô The death of Eiichi Yamamoto earlier this week barely registered as news here in the UK. That's something of a shame. A pioneer in Japanese animation, his work through the decades innovated and inspired a generation of his fellows to put pen …
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