Charlie Brigden

The score for Robert Eggers' creepy remake returns the horror score to the days when it still had the power to genuine frighten us, finds Charlie Brigden

Gangster movies are an industry onto themselves in Britain, with everything from Brighton Rock in 1948 to today’s Rise of the Footsoldier franchise. But while Guy Ritchie’s films are still being co…

Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace is basically the Citizen Kane of the giallo, and it’s no surprise, because it’s amazing. Arrow Video have brought out a new 4K UHD edition of the film and it looks…

One of the reasons that ‘classic cinema’ films have that title, is their continued relevance decades and decades after they were released, and one picture that can certainly claim that …

Britain has many archaic traditions, but unsurprisingly, one of them isn’t human sacrifice. That said, there may be some use in it coming back for certain politicians, but I digress. The most famou…

There will never be another like Boris Karloff. To have an actor playing roles in genre pictures that are generally seen to be trash, yet have his name fly so high across the globe that he ended up…

Not every movie can be a winner, even when your filmography is as revered as that of Michael Mann. His hacking thriller Blackhat starring Chris Hemsworth was given mixed critical reviews and consid…

Football, or soccer as Americans like to call it. It’s 2023 and there are still controversies about whether or not women should be allowed to play the game; meanwhile the men’s game is still awash …

One of the benefits of the many boutique home video labels is the introduction of cult films often unavailable or unknown to mainstream audiences, especially foreign markets like the UK. A great ex…

An essential black queer film from the early ’90s, Young Soul Rebels has been given a new restoration by the BFI that highlights how relevant the film still is in modern times. Set in 1977 at…

blood money noun 1: money obtained at the cost of another’s life 2: money paid (as by a killer or the killer’s clan) to the family of a person who has been killed 3: Arrow Video’s…

by Charlie Brigden, Staff Writer Cobweb weaves an engrossing emotional story that it uses to catch the audience unaware, at which point the bottom drops out of the elevator.

It’s getting hard to keep up with all the great discs coming out of Radiance at the moment, and here’s another terrific trio, with a pair of Robert Altman films – O.C. and Stiggs …

It’s difficult to find a more interesting director than Robert Eggers right now. The Witch was an incredible debut, The Northman was a hugely ambitious epic, and he’s now filming a rema…

There has never been a better actor and martial artist than Bruce Lee. There may be some who are more proficient, some who have more talent and skill in either profession, but for bringing a pure m…

If movies were real-life, there would undoubtedly be a category in the Olympics for the greatest hired killer. John Wick would be there along with The Bride, Leon, and probably Anton Chigurh. But t…

Franco Nero, what an actor. Those piercing blue eyes and his innate ability to make you believe he’s going through a multitude of emotions at the same time. He starred in several pictures in …

Skinamarink. No, it’s not some kind of Venezuelan lizard but a high-concept horror film that was lauded for a great part of last year, particularly when it was leaked onto the internet. But i…

Sixty years is a long time. Wars can be fought and regimes can fall, and if your picture can survive that long as a critical darling, it has to be recognised as a classic. Such is the case with Jea…

One thing about movies is that they tend to make bad people look really, really cool. Thieves, conmen, and assassins are constantly portrayed as being super-cool, with the latter applying particula…