Neil Mitchell is a writer and editor based in Brighton, East Sussex. He is the editor of the London and Melbourne editions of Intellect Books' World Film Locations series and the co-editor of the Britain edition of the Directory of World Cinema series, also for Intellect Books. He writes for The Big Picture, Electric Sheep, Little White Lies and Rogue Cinema in between watching far too many movies than is probably healthy. A longtime lover of the horror and science fiction genres, he has developed a taste for world cinema, 'arthouse' films and documentaries.
He is currently working on a monograph on Brian De Palma's Carrie for Auteur Publishing - it's the first horror movie he can remember seeing as a kid.
Above all, it is the narrative’s clear feminist leanings that remain a breath of fresh air, prescient then and still hugely relevant to the modern world.
Trouble at t'shop when eldest daughter of tyranical Lancashire bootmaker in 1890 decides to marry his timid, downtrodden employee.
Burnt by the Sun 2 plays fast and loose with both actual history and its own fictionally established facts in such a way that those familiar with Mikhalkov's original may struggle to fully embrace the director's most ambitious work to date.
Betrayed Red Army General, Sergei Kotov, attempts to clear his name and regain his honour.
Even the most rose-tinted viewer able to remember the show's original broadcasts will be hard pushed to claim this as anything other than a huge misfire in pretty much every respect.
Molecular scientist Daniel Westin becomes permanently invisible when an experiment goes wrong.
While there is much to admire about Spring Breakers in terms of visual aesthetic and directorial style, those aspects are undermined by a run of the mill narrative not nearly as subversive as it appears to want to be.
Four college students form an unlikely allegiance with a drug dealer.
A witty, gory and trippy descent into altered states of consciousness, eroticised power plays and the clash between humankind, monstrous entities and hybridised 'others'.
Scientists open a door to a parallel universe, with horrific consequences.
