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Eight Essential Sci-Fi Prison Movies

September 15, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to get locked up with the key thrown away as we look at these essential sci-fi prison movies… Some sub-genres seem to prove hugely popular. Whether it’s the Die Hard copycat or an Alien riff, some concepts lend themselves to being rejigged, reheated and served as new. There are prison movies which have […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alien 3, cube, Escape Plan, Fortress, No Escape, Spoiler, The Running Man, Wedlock

10 More International Horror Movies You Need to See

September 14, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with more international horror movies for your watch list… Recently we dropped a list about international horror and now I’m back with more recommendations of the same thing. Why? Because there’s a never-ending list of international horror films that need to be watched and appreciated out there. Many of us haven’t even cracked […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: A Record of Sweet Murder, belladonna of sadness, dog soldiers, I Saw the Devil, Paprika, Perfect Blue, Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital, The Demon Disorder, The Host, Wolf Creek 2

Almost Famous at 25: The Story Behind the Coming-of-Age Cult Classic

September 8, 2025 by admin

Hasitha Fernando on the story behind Almost Famous as it celebrates its 25th anniversary… Almost Famous was one of the quintessential 2000s films that effortlessly captured the 1970s era replete with rock stars, touring with groupies and reckless behavior. And in spite of hits like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Jerry McGuire under his […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Almost Famous, billy crudup, cameron crowe, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit

10 Psychological Horror Gems You Need To See

September 8, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with ten great psychological horror movie gems for your watch list… The genuine terror that can be elicited from a good psychological horror film is top tier. Whether it be a film like The Shining (1980) where the madness builds and builds, the home invasion terror in The Strangers (2008), the psychologically grueling […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: Dead Ringers, Don't Move, Dread, Last Shift, The Blackcoat's Daughter, The Brood, The Invitation, Triangle, Unsane, Would You Rather

Incredible TV Shows That Were Cancelled Too Soon

September 6, 2025 by admin

Simon Thompson with ten great television shows that were cancelled too soon… Over a lifetime of watching TV shows, I’ve come to realise that television show life expectancy is the exact opposite of boxing. In boxing great fighters almost always continue when their best days are long behind them, but when it comes to TV […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Simon Thompson, Television Tagged With: arrested development, Bakersfield PD, Carnivale, Clone High, Deadwood, firefly, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, rome, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, Twin Peaks

10 International Horror Movies You Need To See

August 15, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with ten international horror movies for your watch list… Being a horror fan means a lot of things and occasionally that means expanding our palettes by watching something different. Expanding your viewing experience by checking out international horror is something people should try more often. There are countless countries that have released stellar […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: A Classic Horror Story, Audition, Frontier(s), Funny Games, Infested, Mads, noroi: the curse, Opera, Terrified, The Lure

The Blockbuster Comic Book Movie Problem: The Box Office Cliff Edge

August 31, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Thunderbolts*, Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps did everything right, so what went wrong with this year’s comic book movie blockbusters at the box office? Hollywood has spent the past half a decade in a post-COVID era, facing an exacerbation of a problem that was already well in motion. Fewer people, particularly younger generations, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Avatar, Avatar: Fire and Ash, DC, dc studios, DC Universe, Disney, James Gunn, lilo and stitch, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, sinners, Superman, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts, Weapons

10 Great Movies About Making Movies

August 31, 2025 by admin

Simon Thompson presents ten great movies about making movies… The job of a filmmaker is one of great artistic fulfilment, but it is also a taxing, emotionally fraught line of work connected to a rapidly changing industry that is more often than not undergoing a great existential crisis over being about art or commerce. It […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Simon Thompson, Top Stories Tagged With: 8 ½, Barton Fink, Day for Night, Ed Wood, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Mulholland Drive, Sunset Boulevard, The Bad and The Beautiful, The Player, This is Spinal Tap

10 Great Horror TV Shows You Need to Watch

August 30, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with a selection of horror TV shows you need to watch… We talk a lot about horror movies and how much we adore them, but what about horror television? The commitment one must have for a TV show, especially if they are watching multiple shows, is often daunting. However, when you find a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Television, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: Archive 81, Ash vs. Evil Dead, Dead of Summer, From, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Slasher, The Strain, Van Helsing, Wolf Creek

10 Great Horror Movies with Villainous Protagonists

August 24, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with ten great horror movies centring on villainous protagonists… In the world of horror, typically we’re meant to root for the protagonists like the final girl or boy, the character who endears us the most, and so on. Occasionally those characters aren’t antagonistic or villainous, as many tropes follow particular formulas. However, there […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: Angst, Brighburn, Excision, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, pearl, Sissy, Spree, The Devil's Rejects, the omen, Tragedy Girls

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