by Dave Bradley | Nov 9, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Christopher Fowler (Hachette Australia) 2017, 374pp, RRP $35.00 The prolific Fowler’s gorgeous latest is a wonderfully witty study of authors who, despite huge sales, trendsetting innovations and major celebrity even only a few decades ago, are now strangely,...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 95 Mins Something of a lost classic , director Larry Peerce’s raw, uncomfortable drama must have seemed pretty confronting in 1967, and nowadays still feels tense, as his intriguing cast gets psychologically terrorised (and do some psychological terrorising...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, MA, 96 Mins Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s first film as writer/director from way back in 1969 takes several uncredited cues from Fredric Brown’s novel The Screaming Mimi and yet the style is all Argento’s, and while it isn’t as wild and terrifying as...