Tag Archives: Glasgow
Disreputable Trash
Matchbox Cineclub‘s September screening was Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s House (1977). It was part of the annual UK-wide Scalarama film festival which aims to celebrate independent cinema and DIY, pop-up cinema culture, often with a focus on what The Skinny called “the kind of disreputable … Continue reading
The Funniest Film You’ve Never Seen: HERCULES RETURNS
In the late 1980s, Australian comedy troupe Double Take brought their first live show, Double Take Meet The Astro Zombies, to London’s Scala cinema. Now, as part of Scalarama 2015, Physical Impossibility is bringing Double Take’s only film, Hercules Returns (David Parker, 1993), … Continue reading
Pasolini Programme Note for GFT
Pasolini (Dir. Abel Ferrara, 2014) is screening at GFT from today, Friday 11th September, to Thursday 17th September. GFT have also programmed single screenings of Pasolini’s The Gospel According To St Matthew (1964) and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). My accompanying programme note will … Continue reading
Matchbox Cineclub #9: House (Scalarama 2015)
Matchbox Cineclub’s September screening, part of Scalarama 2015, will be Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House (1977). House is a Japanese film about a group of schoolgirls terrorised by a haunted house, which is also the very least of it. It was a struggling Japanese film industry’s … Continue reading
Cheeky Sequels
”I want everyone to know that whoever is involved in the sequel is jumping on board a poison ship. It will be a terrible film, with a horrible reason [sic] d’être: to make money off someone else’s creativity.” James Franco … Continue reading
Physical Impossibility 