Festivals
GRIMM UP NORTH – Grave Encounters and Seance: The Summoning
With the release of Grave Encounters on DVD and Blu-Ray next week, the Grimm team arranged a preview of the film to kick-start their supernatural horror double bill. Has it been worth the wait? Tom finds out… Grave Encounters With the recent surge in popularity of Found Footage horrors now waning,...
Grimm up North – Demons Double Bill
For the latest Grimm up North event Tom attended the Demons double bill, was it as terrifying as the title might suggest? Read on to find out… Having never seen Demons or Demons 2 I was pretty psyched to see both of the films in a location which is very...
Grimm up North – Arthouse Horror Double Bill
On Thursday night I joined the Grimm team for their latest double bill at the Manchester Dancehouse and was treated to two very different and very intriguing films. Arthouse horror has a tendency to completely divide audiences so read on to find out whether A Horrible Way to Die...
Grimm up North – Samurai Splatter Double Bill
It was a cold February Friday evening as I ventured out to the Anthony Burgess Foundation for the second of Grimm up North’s horror double bill’s, and having not seen either of the films on show; Shogun Assassin or Baby Cart to Hades, I was looking forward to a fun...
Weekend Round Up – Cult Classic Italian Horror Double Bill
This weekend was the second of the new Monthly Screenings from GRIMM UP NORTH, Tom Bielby was in attendance, here are his thoughts… It was with great anticipation that I ventured to the Manchester Dancehouse for the first of Grimm Up North’s monthly double screenings as from the films on...
Weekend Round-Up – Cine-City’s Big Weekend!
This weekend was a mammoth of one for me, not so much in the quantity but the quality of films seen was amazing. Cine-City is now over the halfway mark. And the fatigue is now replaced with a sadness for I see the end now. In fact I am only...
Review: CINE-CITY Diary 24th November – Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 3D
We are on a roll now, continuing the coverage of Cine-City’s Brighton Film Festival, last night was Hara-Kiri. A Samurai film? Takashi Miike? Sign me up, oh hold on it is 3D? Riiiight. I don’t know about that. That was pretty much the conversation I had with myself when reading up...
CINE-CITY 2011 Diary 23rd November – Breathing (Atmen)
Wednesday night and we are back at Brighton’s Film Festival to take in Breathing (Atmen) I am getting better at the run now. Gone are the leaving an hour before showtime and arriving super early. On Monday I had to sit in my car until the clock ticked past 6pm...
