Hokum (2026)

Hokum is No Hokum. 

maybe the best, most intense horror of the year yet.

To be seen on the big screen. It's widescreen -  2.39 : 1, -by Colm Hogan, kudos! - but it's claustrophobic and the sound design is Great !!! And the music too-atmospheric, as a tool of building more sound ! 

From the director od Oddity and Caveat, Irishman Damian McCarthy, a name to follow...

McCarthy provides some genuine good scares 

and gets a restrained performance from Adam Scott (Severance series), at his most serious and downbeat. His character is the obnoxious and depressed writer Ohm Bauman (reminiscences to Richard Bachman, The Shining -Kubrick's- and other Stephen King characters, Jack Torrance, Mort Rainey, George Strak included). 

Hokum is psychological horror mixed with folk supernatural lore, but also a bit more,

Opening and ending bookends raise the quality of the film a lot. 

Liked it better than Weapons and felt the kind of vibe Hereditary gave me back when I saw it in a cinema. 

7 1/2 out of 10 !

Deep Purple-Arrogant Boy (SOTD)

 Great new song from some ol' boyz

Lyrics here 

video here, premiered 2nite.

Produced by Bob Ezrin. Written by Don Airey, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Simon McBride & Ian Paice.

From their upcoming 24th studio album SPLAT !, out on July 3d.

see ya in Cluj on Oct. 1st !!!

https://btarena.info/event/concert-deep-purple/

tickets here

Iron Maiden -Burning Ambition (2026)

 hell yeah, and yes a film about the Maidens

8.05.2026. watch your cinema screens !!!

now the London premiere was on 

See ya Friday at Coresi -Cinema One in Brasov, it runs there Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 19.00

(also it runs next weekend)

https://www.cinemaone.ro/movie/3292/1/253179#/

Up the Irons !!!! 

Update after the screening (as noted on Letterbox):

Gotta say I expected this for a while so my expctations were Aces High. Seeing all the docs about the Irons, it makes for a nice completion, and great to see it in a cinema theater (*although mostly empty :( but it is more or less a promotional tool for the ongoing tour, more than the coda on the story of the Iron Maiden legend. 

3 1/2 -half star beacuse it ws on the big screen tho-

International BO here.

Romanian box office:

Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition

distributor: Ro Image 2000 1 86 2.285 73.232,46 2.285 73.232,46 2.285 73.232,46 lei

16.459,32 USD

2.285 tickets / 86 screens....

The Lodger (1927)

The Lodger -from Aperitiff 2009 on a a special live music projection 

În The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), Londra e terorizată de un misterios

asasin în serie, numit Răzbunătorul (The Avenger), care ucide blonde în plină şi perpetuă

ceaţă. În acelaşi timp un individ misterios se cazeză în pensiunea familiei Bunting, care

începe să-l suspecteze pe chiriaş că este asasinul mult temut. Protagonistul titular este

Ivor Novello, renumit compozitor, actor şi cîntăreţ în epocă, care şi-a reluat rolul din

acest film mut într-un remake sonor, din 1932 (regia Maurice Elvey). Temele

caracteristice lui Alfred Hitchcock, suspiciune şi vionovăţie, care vor reveni obsedant,

sunt prezente în primul său thriller, cu tuşe expresioniste, care se inspiră din povestea lui

Jack Spintecătorul. Este şi primul film de Hitchcock care se păstrează integral (copia

nouă are 105 minute) şi în care regizorul are un cameo, apariţie devenită apoi trademark.

Versiunea clujeană are 75 de minute şi e acompaniată live de muzica DJ Dubase &

Leizaboy.

Alin Ludu Dumbravă