• TV Review – The Flash, Season 1, Episode 2

    Crime fighting, comedy, cringe and a bit of The Matrix; in this second episode of CW’s The Flash, the fastest man alive (in an episode titled identically so) battles a metahuman who can duplicate himself and is exacting revenge on his former employer. The basis of this week’s instalment to...
  • Review – Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead @ Mayhem Film Festival

    Picking up where its cabin-in-the-woods style predecessor left off, Dead Snow 2’s Martin is in the midst of successfully escaping from a horde of Nazi zombies. His friends have not been so lucky, not least his girlfriend Hanna who died from an axe wound administered by Martin himself. Now,...
  • Film Review – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre @ Mayhem Film Festival

    What to say on the Scooby–Doo-episode-gone-wrong that is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre? In review terms at least, everything that could be said about this landmark, pivotal, groundbreaking (no superlative is too great!) grimefest in less than a 1,000 words pretty much already has been. And so as an...
  • Film Review – Let Us Prey @ Mayhem Film Festival

    The darkest of Mayhem’s opening night offerings (though considering the rest of the content was supplied by the irreverent and hilarious Astron-6 collective, that’s not all too surprising), Let Us Prey presented to audiences a taut, beautifully shot horror-thriller with a relentlessly increasing sense of “as if this is happening now…” After...
  • TV Review – American Horror Story: Freak Show, Episode 4

    This is exactly what we were waiting for. Following on from last week’s Part 1 of this “Edward Mordrake” two-parter, Part 2 is everything its predecessor was not: exciting, fulfilling and full of death; indeed a great comfort after the previous disappointing chapter. Warning: Spoilers follow! With each of...
  • Film Review – The Editor @ Mayhem Film Festival

    Expanding their niche of irreverent and madcap throwbacks to the low-budget classics of their childhood, Canadian production company Astron-6 descended on Nottingham with their gore-soaked giallo homage, The Editor. In a loving pastiche of a genre most fondly remembered for its sheer crapness, Astron-6 have gone to great lengths to replicate the shoddiness that makes the...
  • The Smaller, The Better – Student Micro Films

    As part of the Nottingham Screen Partnership, the city was host to a three day event in late October for the third Global Chinese University Student Micro Film Competition. The annual competition offers higher education students in participating universities around the world, including UoN, to create and submit their...