The Heroic Trio (1993)

I always understood that The Heroic Trio (1993) was one to see, ever since seeing clips of it in Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep (it’s featured as one of the films that convinces the director character played by Jean-Pierre Leaud to cast Maggie Cheung in his remake of Les Vampires). A Hong Kong action adventure thriller, […]

Don’t Let The Riverbeast Get You! (2012)

In certain circles of film fans, the movies from Motern Media have a growing, niche audience. Low budget movies produced in the New England area by Matt Farley and Charles Roxburgh and their collaborators. Roxburgh usually directs, Farley stars and scores, and they co-write these opuses, mainly released through their website. Settling down to watch […]

Freaky Farley (2007)

I was finally motivated to watch Freaky Farley (2007), my first Motern Media movie thanks to an interview in The Important Cinema Club Journal with actor/writer/producer Matt Farley (he and director Charles Roxburgh are the people behind the production company, Motern Media). Farley mentions Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 in this interview as one […]

The Lair Of The White Worm (1988)

Ever since I read about a scout’s unfortunate end – his own ‘end’ separated in a bathtub by the fangs of Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe) – in a copy of Empire magazine as a wee slip of lad (I think as part of a weird section on unfortunate ends to male genitalia in the […]

House On Haunted Hill (1999)

The ghost of an ooky kooky spooky 1950s William Castle is haunting the set of the Nine Inch Nails ‘Closer’ music video (or vice versa). That’s the experience of House On Haunted Hill (1999), the first movie from Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company from Robert Zemeckis, Joel Silver and Gilbert Adler, initially set up […]