Colin Edwards‘Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?’ or — Gremlins, Godard and Glands?The film immediately starts destroying itself as soon as it begins (not even the 20th Century Fox logo is safe and the opening credits are…3 min read·4 days ago----
Colin Edwards‘Ranking the Studio Albums of Genesis’ or — An Embarrassment of Highly Embarrassing Riches?Ah, Genesis — my first musical love. The most formative band of my teens and gateway into a larger world of prog, jazz and classical. I’ve…12 min read·4 days ago----
Colin Edwards‘The Valiant Ones’ or — Wonderful Wuxia?To call ‘The Valiant Ones’ (1975) one of King Hu’s lesser Wuxia works is only a criticism if you forget the fact that most of his other…3 min read·Jun 6, 2024----
Colin Edwards‘The Seventh Curse’ or — Pure Cinematic Dopamine?You don’t really need to know the story of ‘The Seventh Curse’ (1986) but I’ll briefly outline it anyway. After rescuing a young woman…3 min read·Jun 5, 2024----
Colin Edwards‘Give My Regards to Broad Street’ or — A Rigorous Deconstruction of the Entirely Non-Existent?Watching ‘Give My Regards to Broad Street’ (1984) is an experience so excruciatingly painful it’s a pummelling stress-test on the body’s…4 min read·Jun 3, 2024----
Colin Edwards‘Dark of the Sun’ or — A Passage to Hell?I’ve the hunch ‘Dark of the Sun’ (1968) might not qualify as what you’d technically call a “good movie”. Crude, brutal, vulgar and as…3 min read·Jun 1, 2024----
Colin Edwards‘Love Exposure’ or — Destroying the Various Levels of Religious, Romantic and Sexual Idealisation?The title credits to Sion Sono’s ‘Love Exposure’ (2008) don’t appear until an hour into the film, something that’s somewhat understandable…3 min read·May 31, 2024----
Colin Edwards‘Elegant Beast’ or — An Extraordinary Examination of Spatial, Social and Familial Units?The Maeda family are a family of grifters, swindlers and embezzlers. They live in a brutalist apartment building opposite a U.S. air force…3 min read·May 30, 2024----
Colin Edwards‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ or — Better Than ‘Fury Road’?I thought George Miller’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ (2015) was one of the most exciting, exhilarating and entertaining movies I’d ever seen……2 min read·May 29, 2024----
Colin Edwards‘Planet of the Vampires’ or — The Allure of Alien Aesthetics?As a big fan of Mario Bava, Italian cinema and Italian sci-fi I’ve been dying to see ‘Planet of the Vampires’ (1965) for years. I was also…3 min read·May 28, 2024----
