Coma (2022)

Bedroom pop? Or bedroom shoegaze? More like bedroom darkwave. Dedicated in an opening narration to his 18 year old daughter, French director Bertrand Bonello made Coma (2022) during Covid lockdown and frames the teenage bedroom as its setting. Even with the alarms outside reiterating lockdown curfew, the sight of a teenager stuck in their bedroom, […]

Issue 24: Underrated Actresses

ISSUE 24 IS OUT! Celebrating the undersung names that should be up in massive lights: Phoebe Cates, Barbara Crampton, Jeanne Tripplehorn and many, many more! VHS Tracking is an A5-sized fold-out zine of movie recommendations responding to the theme of “Underrated Actresses,” celebrating our favourite underappreciated thespians. Printed through risograph by Neighbourhood Press. Brilliant cover […]

Charisma (1999)

1999 is often discussed as a great year in cinema, and key to that is because it was 1999. All the celebrated and successful films of that year tend to share themes about the destruction of the old, the beginning of the new. Or are vibrating on end of the century, millennium anxieties – fear […]

Eyes Of The Spider (1998)

1997 was a busy year for Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Serpent’s Path and Eyes Of The Spider (1998) were two movies united by the same theme – revenge – and the same star – Sho Aikawa. They were low budget movies for the straight-to-video market and each apparently only had a two week shoot. In between, Kurosawa […]

Trash Classics: Program 7

Screening from: August to December, 2024.Luna Leederville Trash Classics? Let’s get real: these are just great movies! Whether they were “trashed” upon first release, either critically derided and/or commercially unsuccessful, these movies have endured as cult classics and fan favourites. A Trash Classic screening is a celebration, a chance for old fans and new viewers […]