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War In Perpetuity: Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers

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In a conversation with Little White Lies in 2017, Paul Verhoeven accused Hollywood of treating the general cinema- going public like idiots. ‘Hollywood thinks audiences are stupid’, he was quoted as saying during a promotional interview for controversial 2016 Isabelle Huppert starrer Elle.

The provocative Dutch director, responsible, arguably, for single-handedly reinvigorating the cinematic respectability of his home nation with auteur productions such as Turkish Delight and The 4th Man, left the Netherlands to work in America due to the backlash […]

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Disseminating Evil: Apt Pupil and the Darker Side of Humanity

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Apt Pupil is one of those delightful movies in which the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.

Of course, this is Stephen King at his macabre and intimate best, and although the character’s in Bryan Singer’s engrossing, bare bones adaptation are as familiar to us as the next human being, they possess all of the secrets and desires that fundamentally keep us strangers. This is anything but your typical good opposing evil morality play, and in many ways the movie’s central characters are not opponents at all […]

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Sony PlayStation)

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It’s impossible to hurl too many superlatives at Castlevania: Symphony of the Night because it deserves each and every one of them. Is it the best PlayStation game ever made? Is it the best game of the 1990s? Is it the best game ever? These are legitimate questions that gamers and fans of the title have been asking themselves and others since its release in 1997.

I’ve been a huge fan of the Castlevania series since the original on the NES and have been playing any version I can get my hands on ever since […]

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