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10 Essential Ninja Movies

October 2, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Get your shurikens and masks at the ready, because it’s time for ten essential ninja movies… They glide through trees and leap between buildings. They blend with the shadows. They wear really cool outfits and fight each other with swords and shuriken. Back in the golden 8 and 16-bit eras, there were innumerable and awesome […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: american ninja, beverly hills ninja, Enter the Ninja, New York Ninja, Ninja, ninja assassin, Ninja III: The Domination, ninja: shadow of a tear, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Hunted, The Killer Elite

The Definitive Top 10 Alfred Hitchcock Movies

September 28, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Alfred Hitchcock was an undoubted master of cinema; here are his best works… When you’re a master of cinema with a resume that is stuffed with incredible movies, sometimes the hardest thing for fans to agree upon is how to rank them. It’s easy if you’re looking at Richard Kelly, for example, whose best by […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder, frenzy, marnie, north by northwest, Psycho, rear window, Rebecca, rope, shadow of a doubt, Strangers on a Train, Suspicion, The 39 Steps, The Birds, The Lady Vanishes, The Lodger, the man who knew too much, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo

The Essential Robert Redford Movies

September 20, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look back at the essential movies from the late, great Robert Redford… A Hollywood legend has left us, and few have had the kind of wide-ranging and incredible career of Robert Redford. The easy smile, poster boy looks and effortless charisma made Redford an A-list star, but his creative talents and methodical […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A River Runs Through It, All is Lost, All The President's Men, Brubaker, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Jeremiah Jones, Lions For Lambs, Ordinary People, Quiz Show, Sneakers, The Natural, The Old Man and the Gun, The Sting, Three Days of the Condor

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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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

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