Cemetery Of Splendour (2015)

What I most want from an art movie is to be taken to somewhere else. Another part of the world, yes, but also taken to another way of seeing. Cemetery Of Splendour (2015; Rak Ti Khon Kaen) is only my second film that I’ve watched from Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul (after Uncle Boonmee Who Can […]

Issue 14: Vibes

A new issue of VHS Tracking zine is available! Issue 14’s theme? “Vibes!” Movies that our writers recommend to you based on their vibes (aesthetics, images, style, tone, etc). Featuring movie reviews written by Alexandra Hayes, Jerico Wallace, Heidi Baile and Adam Trainer. Cover image by Tristan Fidler based on Francis Ford Coppola’s One From […]

Roxanne (1987)

“It must be wonderful to wake up and smell the coffee… in Brazil.” I used to rewatch Roxanne (1987) repeatedly as a kid so it’s a personal favourite, which holds up to me as a meeting point between Steve Martin’s ‘wild and crazy guy’ hipster goofball persona and his artistic ambitions to be taken seriously. […]

Blood Feast (1963)

Herschell Gordon Lewis is a name I’ve often heard about but never really been keen to explore; the archetypal still from one of his 1960s-era movies in my mind’s eye is a leering sadist at a table where a nubile woman is submerged in shiny guts and paint-thick blood. Much like Troma cinema, I’m happy […]

Spartan (2004)

Spartan (2004) has a Tom Clancy type espionage potboiler story: The President’s Daughter Is Missing. Yet it’s another example in good storytelling not being about the what, but the how – it’s all given purpose and style through director-writer David Mamet’s distinct way with dialogue and plotting. Even in comparison to other spy thrillers at […]