Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective… Described by David Cronenberg as a “poetic horror film”, Terry Gilliam prefers to think of Tideland as Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho. The choice of words of both directors indicates that Tideland will sit as one of Gilliam’s more divisive films, offering the viewer an authentic Gilliamesque trip […]

Luke Owen reviews the first issue of Chris Ryall’s The Colonized #1 Part 1: “Minutemen in Black” – In this all-new miniseries, a spaceship crashes into a separatist camp and manages to reanimate the dead as well! It’s aliens vs. zombies vs. militiamen in a carnage-filled tale from the co-creator of Zombies vs Robots! Well, […]

Love Crime (French: Crime d’amour), 2010. Directed by Alain Corneau.Starring Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas and Patrick Mille. SYNOPSIS: When ruthless business executive Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas) is threatened by her young and ambitious protégé Isabelle (Laudivine Sagnier), she begins to undermine and toy with Isabelle’s naive innocence. The fallout changes the lives of both […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Mars Attacks… In the small town of Tortilla Flats, New Mexico, events are unfolding that could change the direction of the war. What the heck do a boy and a former mobster have to do with it? I’ve been really impressed with this Mars Attacks series and felt […]

Paul Risker chats with Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, writer-director of Thursday Till Sunday… Recently I was privileged to have an opportunity to speak with Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, and gain an insight into the mind of the writer-director, who made her feature debut with Thursday Till Sunday. She spoke to us about how she finds […]

Luke Owen reviews the final issue of Godzilla: Half Century War…. Ota Murakami has fought Godzilla for fifty years. The decades have been hard on Ota, and he is seemingly no closer to his goal. Now, in the frozen wastes of Antarctica, the end of the world beckons. Ota and Ken gear up for a […]

Paul Risker chats with French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz about his latest film Rebellion… It was eight years ago that Mathieu Kassovitz exploded onto the scene with La Haine (1995), celebrated as a modern cinematic masterpiece. So it is no surprise that here at Wages of Film, we were particularly excited at the prospect of sitting […]

Luke Owen reads issue #15 of Transformers: Robots in Disguise… THE END OF THE WORLD! When Cybertron collapses—who will pick up the pieces? MEGATRON stands poised to triumph—locked in final battle with BUMBLEBEE, STARSCREAM, METALHAWK, and PROWL! One will stand… the rest will fall. A couple of weeks ago, fellow on-going Transformers comic More Than […]

Paul Risker reviews the eleventh episode of Sons of Anarchy season 5… Well who would have thought it? Kurt Sutter for the first time in season five of Sons of Anarchy misfires. After an impressive run of near perfect consistency, I found myself observing any number of nagging problems. To list them all would take […]

Follwing our interview with Dale Lloyd of Viva VHS, Luke Owen looks back at his VHS memories… Ghostbusters is my favourite film of all time. A lot of people have trouble giving an answer to that question and will often give a “I can maybe do a top 10” or “there are way too many favourites to […]