As someone with crohn's disease, the Alien films resonate. Scriptwriter #danobannon based the chestbuster scene on his own experiences with IBD. It seems like Wendy in “Alien Earth” is partly modeled on the character of Annalee Call (Winona Ryder) in "Alien Resurrection".

J-horror Unbound: Lindsay Nelson & Dr. Colette Balmain on Japanese Horror Lindsay Nelson and Dr. Colette Balmain join Andy to unravel the eerie world of J-horror, exploring its origins, evolution, and global impact on horror cinema.

I talked to Andy Nelson @thenextreel about #jhorror

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Full discussion with Lindsay on YouTube: youtu.be/F5IvMVxc8x0
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My fitness journey #fitbit #betteruk I started last week going to the gym every day. I do what I can which varies day by day depending on how I feel.

Being and Nothingness: Existential Despair in TABLO x RM’s “Stop The Rain” TABLO and RM are the leaders of the most iconic K-Pop/K-rap groups, Epik High and BTS, respectively. K-Pop groups tend to have specific roles, such as rapper, vocalist, visual, maknae, to which mem…

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A ★★★★★ review of Karma (2025) Adapted from Choi Hee-Sun’s Kakao Entertainment’s 38 episode, 10 million-view webtoon, Karma, the six episode limited series, concerns the vagaries of fate. The show follows the intersecting lives of ...

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Queer South Asian Diasporic Cultural Production in Britain: Resistance, Mobility & Aesthetics
Rohit K Dasgupta, London School of Economics #AAS2025

Anti-Trafficking or Anti-Immigrant? Rethinking the Centrality of Border Control in the Philippines’ Antitrafficking Policy
Sharmila Parmanand, London School of Economics and Political Science #AAS2025

3-024 - Sexuality, Mobility & Belonging: In/Exclusions in Transnational Asia #AAS2025

Trans Politics and the Shifting Political Economy of Lagan in North India
Aniruddha Dutta, University of Iowa #AAS2025

A ★★★★★ review of The Priests (2015) Developed from the award-winning short, The 12th Assistant Deacon (available to rent through Vimeo ondemand), Jang Jae-hyun’s directorial debut claimed 61.9 % of the market share in its opening weeken...

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A ★★★ review of Demon City (2025) Demon City/Demon City 鬼ゴロシ After one last bloody mission, Shuhei Sakata (Toma Ikuta), assassin for hire and one-man killing machine, tries to retire to spend time with his family, his wife, Aoi Sakata...

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A ★★½ review of Djinn (2013) At first Djinn looks to be an anomaly, in that the first UAE horror film was directed by a Western director. But actually the choice of Tobe Hooper must have been seen a logical one at the time given ...

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A ★★★ review of Death Whisperer 2 (2024) Directed by Khui-Taweewar, the film is set in 1972 in a rural village in Kanchanaburi province where Yak (Nadech Kugimiya) is on a mission to avenge his sister (who dies in the first film) and kill th...

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A ★★★★★ review of Light Shop (2024) After a horrific bus crash, the driver and passengers wake up to find themselves confined to a dark alley, along with other strangers, where the only other sign of life is the brightly lit light shop ...

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A ★★★★ review of Missing: The Other Side (2020) When people’s bodies go missing after an unnatural death, they end up trapped in a nether world unable to move on until it is found. Missing The Other Side takes this as its premise, with Season one a...

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A ★★★★ review of Cottontail (2023) I have written a full review, which will be posted up on View of the Arts and will link it once it is up. This UK/Japan co-production is a beautifully shot mediation on the nature of love, family, and...

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#NowWatching #Cottontail in cinemas tomorrow. Directed by Patrick Dickinson UK/ Japan #reviewing @Showing at ICALondon from tomorrow

A ★★ review of The Pope's Exorcist (2023) “If there’s something strange in your … [basement] … who are you going to call … [the Pope’s Exorcist i.e. Russell Crowe riding a white vespa] …*  Following the death of her husband in a car accident ...

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A ★★★★★ review of The Devil Judge (2021) Powerful writing by Moon Yoon Seok, beautifully realized on the small screen through the direction of #ChoiJungKyu, The Devil Judge is set in a dystopian Korea where a reality court TV show allows mem...

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My short #review of #TheDevilJudge #recommended watch @netflixuk.bsky.social

A ★★★★ review of Smile (2022) A psychiatrist, Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon), is called to see a newly admitted patient at the hospital where she works. The patient, a graduate student, Laura Weaver (Caitlin Stasey), is traumatised hav...

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A ★★★½ review of Alien: Romulus (2024) Where’s the cat? Cailee Spaeny (Rain Carradine) and her android brother Andy (David Jonsson) live on Jackson’s Star Colony on the planet LV-410 in the year 2142.  Cailee dreams of escaping the forced ...

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A ★★ review of Little Master (1986) Little Master is a jiangshi comedy-horror film which is heavy on the comedy and light on the thrills. A Qing dynasty prince’s (Ying-Min Chen), the Little Master, sleep is disturbed when an archaeologi...

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A ★½ review of The Jitters (1989) Jiangshi, alien, aquaman?  In Toronto’s Chinatown, crime against small businesses has led to an outbreak of jiangshi, colloquially known as hopping vampires (although they’re not strictly vampires but...

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A ★★★★ review of Rigor Mortis (2013) Rigor Mortis is Juno Mak’s directorial debut.  A multi-talented canto-pop singer, screenwriter, producer and actor, Mak’s first film is a homage to jiangshi cinema, of times past and the spiritual emp...

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A ★★★★ review of Ready or Not (2019) A beautiful young woman, Grace (Samara Weaving) and her handsome fiancé, Alex Le Domas (Mark O'Brien) get married at his family’s stately home. No expense has been spared at welcoming her into the fam...

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A ★★★★★ review of The Shadow Boxing (1979) The Shadow Boxing (The Spiritual Boxer 2) is a pivotal film in terms of the jiangshi genre. Directed by  Lau Kar-leung (Liu Chia-liang), Two corpse herders, Master Chen Wu (Lau Kar-Wing / Chia-Yung Li...

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My ★★★★★ review of The Shadow Boxing on @letterboxd: boxd.it/8naerB #TheShadowBoxing #kungfucinema ⁦‪@_88films‬⁩ #jiangshi #EastAsianGothicCinema

A ★★½ review of Mr. Zombie 2 (2018) Ricky Lau (Liu Kuan-Wei) returns once more to the Mr Vampire series of films. While the original films were made in the heyday of Hong Kong horror (before Hong Kong was returned to China), this is mad...

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A ★★★★★ review of Mr. Vampire (1985) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

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My ★★★★★ review of Mr. Vampire on @letterboxd: boxd.it/8lrovp I love this film and this is a great restoration by ⁦‪@Eurekavideo‬⁩ I watched it ⁦‪@primevideouk‬⁩ #MrVampire #RickyLau #HongKongHorror #gothic #EastAsianGothic