• Mayhem – Interviewing The Organizers (Part 2)

    Mayhem is one of the cornerstones of Nottingham’s film culture. Hosted by Broadway cinema, each year it brings a fascinating flavour of niche film-making to a wider audience. With 17 films shown in 4 days, there’s bound to be something which grabs your interest. Earlier in the week we...
  • Review – Mercian Mystery X 2

    WARNING: Contains descriptions of depraved and perverted acts, read at own risk. A series of bad decisions recently led me to be sitting in the tiny upstairs room of a city-centre pub, watching a fuzzy black and white scene of a girl getting raped by a gun. I, along...
  • Review – The Iron Rose

    After the life-changing and unforgettable Let Me Die a Woman, David Flint of the Strange Things Are Happening website chose a far more haunting and less borderline-offensive feature for his next screening as part of the Scalarama festival. Jean Rollin’s La rose de fer (The Iron Rose) from 1973 is a slight tale, but its...