All articles by Anton Bitel
Archive creates a not-so-artificial AI
With a nod to its antecedents, Gavin Rothery’s precisely crafted, genre-shifting sci-fi debut uploads human consciousness from the grave to robot vessels.
By Anton Bitel
Possessor sends Andrea Riseborough out of her mind
By Anton Bitel
Relic finds fear in a labyrinthine house of horrors – and in intergenerational illness
By Anton Bitel
Horror islands: seven British domestic shockers (and an American special case) at Halloween FrightFest 2020
By Anton Bitel
The Haunting of Bly Manor review: Bly’s spirits bring the haunted manor back to life
By Anton Bitel
She Dies Tomorrow sends Kate Lyn Sheil’s death drive viral
By Anton Bitel
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
Variations on the woman in trouble at Arrow Video FrightFest 2020
By Anton Bitel
The Vigil review: Orthodox Jews haunted by their histories
By Anton Bitel
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants review: a compassionate story of the healing power of kink
By Anton Bitel
Just Mercy review: Michael B. Jordan fights rough justice and racism in Alabama
By Anton Bitel
The Courier review: Olga Kurylenko’s biker delivers exploitation thrills and kills
By Anton Bitel
The Gentlemen review: gangsters and toffs cavort in Guy Ritchie’s cheeky caper
By Anton Bitel
To Baltic Russians with love: Estonia’s Black Nights Film Festival looks East
By Anton Bitel
Judy & Punch review: a larger-than-life battle of the sexes in a timeless funfair world
By Anton Bitel
Candy, corny, culty: Arrow Video FrightFest Halloween All-Dayer 2019
By Anton Bitel
Gemini Man review: two killer Will Smiths face off
By Anton Bitel
7 excursions from reality in the 2019 London Film Festival Cult strand
By Anton Bitel
This year’s horror cinema, dissected: the FrightFest 2019 podcast
By Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and others
Horror gets real: the limits of fantasy at FrightFest 2019
By Anton Bitel
Heroic Bloodshed: How Hong Kong's style was swiped by Hollywood
By Anton Bitel
Ghost of the Golden Groves first look: a haunting trip into the backwoods of Bengal
By Anton Bitel
Should we stay or should we go? Three grounded escapes at Sci-Fi-London 2019
By Anton Bitel
His Master’s Voice first look: a voyage into an enigmatic universe of otherness
By Anton Bitel
Bumblebee review: the Transformers are better without the Bayhem
By Anton Bitel
Shadows of forgotten time: 10 new-generation revelations from 100-year-old nations at Tallinn Black Nights 2018
By Anton Bitel