Brief Encounter was first brought to my attention in a Cinema and Sound lecture at university. Music and sound is particularly important...

I came across the film ‘M’ after reading about the notorious child killer and cannibal Albert Fish (yikes!). The connections were based...

I read this book when I was in school and I recalled that despite how good, raw and well written it was, it did make me feel extremely...

One Christmas Eve, late at night, during my childhood years I witnessed my first dose of Russ Meyer's work. At this point, my tiny...

It is not that music and sound is necessary to include in all films, but part of what can make a film a work of art, and part of what...

Forget your Italian giallo horror, here come the Greeks! Island of Death became one of the most notorious films on the video nasty list...

Faces of Death was released in the 1970s, as part of the decade’s Mondo film emergence (courtesy of Italy). Mondo, meaning ‘World’ in...

Oxford is my hometown, my home. I was born and raised there, with a few years away during university and thereafter, but I was always...

Michael Haneke is an Austrian filmmaker, whose work predominantly focusses on the subject of voyeurism and teen violence, and...

My interest in this novel was first roused by a Guardian article about how this book was the most controversial of the year. They had me...