Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. Annabel de Vetten makes cakes that will appeal to your taste buds while disturbing your imagination. Under the name “Conjurer’s Kitchen,” de Vetten constructs icing-covered baked goods that resemble everything from innocent tiered wedding cakes to writhing tentacles and spilling organs. Using […]
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The Top 10 Films From London Film Festival 2015
The 59th BFI London Film Festival closed on 18th October with the premiere of Danny Boyle’s biopic of Apple guru, Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet. During the annual eleven-day event, well over 200 films screened across venues in the city and, although many of the big movies selected had already screened at […]
Top 10 Articles of 2014
At the start of 2014, we closed Scene 360 website to focus on Illusion online magazine. We welcomed new writers to the team, expanded our Tattoo section and opened new ones like Cinema and Erotic. Published longer articles and interviews. Focused on what you (the reader) are interested in, and wrote articles based on that. […]
Halloween and Gothic Fashion Photography
Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. The Gothic look and the Halloween season can be a great source of inspiration for fashion photographers and stylists. As the dark nights get ever darker, it is the time of year to enjoy Victorian ghost stories and trashy horror flicks to […]
10 Films Destined For Cult Status
Cult movies rose as a phenomenon in the 1970s, thanks to the likes of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “El Topo” (1970) and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975). A general cultural shift, too, in assessing the value of motion pictures ensured that certain movies picked up devout followers, and it didn’t matter if critics or the general […]
The 10 Best Films of 2020… So Far
Movie releases have been hugely complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Since March, going to see a movie on the big screen hasn’t been an option. Typically, at this point in the year, we’d be right in the middle of Hollywood blockbuster season, but the major studios have indefinitely postponed their tentpole offerings. Things are […]
The Ten Greatest Films of the Decade
The closing months of the decade leads us to contemplating the cinematic landscape from 2010-2019. A few years ago, we ran a list of the decade’s best so far, which, taken with this entry gives you a good overview of 20 films which deserve attention, acclaim and, most importantly, your eyeballs. Of course, there are […]
10 Best Films of 2019 … So Far
As it’s officially June, here’s our midpoint rundown of the year’s best films so far. Films big and small have caught our attention to date, and we’ve purposefully left off movies we’ve seen at last year’s festivals, in order to give fresher titles a fairer hearing. As this is just a taking of the temperature, […]
The Ten Best Films From Cannes 2019
The 72nd “Festival de Cannes” climaxed with “Parasite” winning the coveted Palme d’Or. Jury President, Alejandro González Iñárritu, claimed it was a rare unanimous decision. Everybody on the jury loved Bong Joon-Ho’s latest. Proving 2019’s edition of the world’s greatest film festival was another vintage year, Bong Joon-Ho’s “Parasite” wasn’t even our favourite movie. The […]
Anticipating Asian Cinema in 2019
Anticipation is an expression of bias, which is not to say that the bias is uninformed. I have seen only two of the ten Asian films listed below (“Burning” and “Believer,” both for festivals)—but my piqued interest in the others is not entirely arbitrary. What commends these various titles from Japan, China, Korea and Laos […]