Ricky Church on the best story arcs from Star Wars: The Clone Wars… With Star Wars: The Clone Wars currently airing its long-awaited seventh and final season, it’s high time to get caught up on the adventures of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano during the widespread Clone Wars. Though Disney+ recently put out a list […]
30 Years On: Steven Seagal in Marked For Death
Tom Jolliffe looks back at one of Steven Seagal’s early works, as Marked For Death turns 30… After breaking out with Above The Law, a lot was expected among action fans for what would follow from Steven Seagal. It would take a couple of years waiting until the next one, but 1990 saw two Seagal […]
A Double Hit of Luc Besson Assassin Films: Nikita and Leon
Tom Jolliffe double bills Luc Besson’s Nikita and Leon… Think back to the 90’s. A transitional time for action films. It was also an era that saw a French director hit it big in Hollywood. Then think about the best assassin films of the decade. Chances are when piling up candidates, you’re likely to have […]
Has Showgirls actually become kind of good?
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Showgirls, once universally derided and considered one of the worst films ever… but is it actually misunderstood? Upon its release in 1995, Paul Verhoeven’s trashy spectacular, Showgirls was obliterated by critics. It was a lavish, Vegas set tale with plenty of excess dismissed as vacuous, grimy and seedy. […]
The Battle for Vampire Superiority: The Lost Boys vs. Near Dark
Tom Jolliffe presides over a showdown between the cult 1987 vampire flicks The Lost Boys and Near Dark… The vampire has sucked his merry way through cinema history, from the silent era, to the R-Patz era. We’ve seen many incarnations, many genres, from Christopher Lee to angsty teens, from horror to camp comedy. Perhaps the […]
Nikita vs Anna: When Luc Besson Retraced His Steps
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the film which broke Luc Besson out to the world, and his more recent and pale imitator, Anna… Cinema is almost bereft of an original idea these days. There are very few that arrive which feel like something unique, and even then, the smart-arses among us might start pinpointing similarities […]
They Came From the Crapper: 5 Horror Movies to Watch on World Toilet Day
Kieran Fisher takes a look at some entertaining films about killer toilets and faecal matter…. First and foremost, World Toilet Day should be commended for raising awareness of and inspiring people to tackle the global sanitation crisis – a topic often neglected and overlooked in the grand scheme of things, but one which poses serious […]
The true story behind Universal suing Nintendo over King Kong and Donkey Kong
Luke Owen looks back at the court battle between Universal and Nintendo… “[King Kong] surpasses anything of its type which has gone before it in commercial film-making. The work has many flaws, but they’re overcome by the general results. The errors will probably be overlooked… While not believing it, audiences will wonder how it’s done. If […]
The Ten Best Musical Films of the 2010s
Tom Beasley taps his toes and sings along merrily with ten of the best movie musicals of the decade… The musical is one of the most unusual genres in Hollywood. In the early days of the “talkies”, much of the studio system ran on these movies. They were the oxygen keeping the film business afloat. […]
From Midsommar to Us: The 3 Big Ways that Contemporary Horror Movies Use Dance
Mary Kay McBrayer on the ways that contemporary horror movies use dance… I remember the moment I realized that dance and horror were linked. I showed my Jiddo (grandfather) a video of my favorite belly dancer. The music accompanying her was gooey and ethereal, a Middle Eastern electronica folk fusion, her makeup shimmered, her muscles […]
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