Is the thriller genre making a comeback?
by James Harvey | Sep 20, 2024 | Feature
2024 has been a surprisingly strong year for everyone's favourite adrenaline-delivery mechanism - the thriller....
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Netflix seems to be forgetting that the world existed before Netflix
by Simon Brew | Sep 20, 2024 | Feature, News
Ted Sarandos, boss of Netflix, has described cinema releases as 'inefficient'. But doesn't the streaming giant have a vested interest in the...
Film Quiz Friday | Record Breakers
by Mark Harrison | Sep 20, 2024 | Feature
It’s the most Friday film quiz of the week! Here are 30 more questions about movies, including some about world records…...
Speak No Evil | Comparing the original and the remake
by A J Black | Sep 19, 2024 | Feature
With spoilers, we compare Blumhouse's 2024 horror-thriller Speak No Evil to its even darker 2022 original....
The 1980s films of Michael Caine | The Jigsaw Man (1983)
by John Upton | Sep 18, 2024 | Feature
Our travels through the films of Michael Caine bring us to a bit of an oddity: it's 1983's The Jigsaw Man. Let's take a look......
Mental Health Matters | Talking to people
by Sarah Myers | Sep 18, 2024 | Feature
In this week's mental health column, a few words on talking to others and needing to say things - even when you can't....
Splatterhouse | The pioneering horror videogame’s surprising movie connections
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 17, 2024 | Feature, Gaming
Celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, Namco’s classic coin-op Splatterhouse has even more movie connections than its Friday The 13th-aping h...
Stanley Kubrick | Dr Strangelove and its Cold War rival, Fail-Safe
by A J Black | Sep 16, 2024 | Feature
Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove provided a blackly comic counterpoint to another nuclear war film, Fail-Safe. Time has been kind to both......
Batman & Robin | Finding the good in an infamous 1997 superhero movie
by James Harvey | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature
With Joel Schumacher’s infamous Batman & Robin returning to cinemas, the 1997 quippy sequel is well-poised for a reassessment....
Blade | How the 1998 hit paved the way for the Marvel Cinematic Universe
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature
Although it wasn’t marketed as a comic book movie, 1998’s Blade convinced Hollywood that there was money to be made from Marvel....
Film Quiz Friday | Speak No Evil
by Mark Harrison | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature
This week’s film quiz features questions about silent-era classics, dialogue-lite movies, and even the occasional out-loud quote....
Ghosts Of Mars | The sci-fi western John Carpenter made 20 years too late
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 12, 2024 | Feature
Despite the promise of seeing Jason Statham shoot possessed ghouls in space, Ghosts Of Mars was a box office disappointment in 2001. What might have...
Joker: Folie à Deux | If Hollywood hates movie musicals, why does it keep making them?
by James Harvey | Sep 11, 2024 | Feature
Warner Bros is trying very hard to escape the "Joker 2 is a musical" allegations - so why did Todd Phillips put a bunch of songs in it?...
Mental Health Matters | Finding something good to say
by Simon Brew | Sep 11, 2024 | Feature
A few words in our regular mental health spot about trying to break a cycle of negativity. Sometimes, it's worth just finding something positive to...
Alien: Romulus | Its ending’s dark implications for the franchise
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 10, 2024 | Feature, News
The ending of Alien: Romulus, and some comments by its director, suggest that the franchise’s lore has made a subtle yet dark change…...
Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick and the wrong Mann
by A J Black | Sep 09, 2024 | Feature
In 1960, Stanley Kubrick got his Hollywood break with the period epic, Spartacus. Here's how the painful experience of making it shaped his future...
The summer movies of 2024: a few thoughts on where we’ve ended up
by Simon Brew | Sep 09, 2024 | Feature, News
Summer movie season 2024 has come to an end - and here's a look at where the blockbuster world has ended up....
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | The trick to a good legacy sequel? Drop the legacy
by James Harvey | Sep 06, 2024 | Feature
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice doesn't replace or replicate what came before; it adds to it. What could other legacy sequels learn from Tim Burton's...
Interview | Director Pascal Plante on courtroom thriller Red Rooms
by James Harvey | Sep 06, 2024 | Feature, Interviews
We sat down with the Red Rooms writer-director to talk sociopathy, true crime, and why he doesn't like being compared to David Fincher......
Film Quiz Friday | The Juice Is Loose
by Mark Harrison | Sep 06, 2024 | Feature, News
Our weekly film quiz returns with 30 all-new movie-related questions – fair warning, it features Michael Keaton's name three or more times......
Movie musical trailers | Why aren't there any songs in them?
by James Harvey | Sep 05, 2024 | Feature
If you (somehow) didn't know the upcoming Wicked movie was a musical, none of its three trailers will set you straight....
Sneakers, and the story of its $21 reshot ending
by Simon Brew | Sep 05, 2024 | Feature
1992's Sneakers is a much-loved ensemble crime caper, that needed a reshot ending. An ending that cost just $21.......
Mental Health Matters | Sometimes, you just can't do it all
by Simon Brew | Sep 04, 2024 | Feature
In our regular spot where we chat about mental health and wellbeing, those moments when we seem to hit our limits....
Frankenweenie and the test screening that almost derailed Tim Burton’s career
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 03, 2024 | Feature
Before Beetlejuice, Tim Burton made the short film Frankenweenie - and its test screening nearly ended his career before it started....
Gremlins 2 and its fourth wall-breaking genius
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 02, 2024 | Feature, News
Joe Dante’s pointedly cynical Gremlins 2: The New Batch contains some of the most ingenious fourth wall breaking ever conceived....
Milk & Serial | The low-budget, must-see horror film that’s gone viral
by Maria Lattila | Aug 30, 2024 | Feature, News
Curry Barker’s horror Milk & Serial is the latest internet sensation, and a pretty darn good film too. We take a closer look....
Piles and pillow talk | The biggest changes in the Napoleon director’s cut
by James Harvey | Aug 30, 2024 | Feature
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon director’s cut is streaming on Apple TV+ now – here’re our main takeaways....
Stanley Kubrick | Exploring his earlier lesser-known work
by A J Black | Aug 30, 2024 | Feature
Perhaps best known for A Clockwork Orange of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick has some fabulous earlier work to explore. We take a closer look....
Interview | Director Greg Kwedar on Sing Sing
by Maria Lattila | Aug 29, 2024 | Feature, Interviews, News
We sat down with director Greg Kwedar for a long chat about his powerful film Sing Sing, starring Colman Domingo and an alumni cast of people...
Enter The Clones Of Bruce | A documentary that brilliantly captures a bygone moment in cinema
by Ryan Lambie | Aug 28, 2024 | Feature
A documentary about post-Bruce Lee martial arts movies in the 1970s, Enter The Clones Of Bruce also captures a cinematic era we’ll never see again....
Best horror films on Disney Plus UK
by Maria Lattila | Aug 27, 2024 | Feature, News
Looking for something to scare your socks off? Here’s our picks of the best horror films on Disney Plus UK. ...
The mega problems of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis
by James Harvey | Aug 23, 2024 | Feature, News
So, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is going well. Here's a look back at the problems, crises and controversies around the auteur's four-decade...
