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Out for Vengeance: Ten Essential Revenge Movies

August 26, 2024 by admin

Casey Chong with ten essential revenge movies… The long-gestating reboot of The Crow, which famously suffered from development hell as early as 2008 with numerous directors and actors coming and going, has finally flown into cinemas, starring Bill Skarsgård as the titular character with Rupert Sanders of the live-action Hollywood version of Ghost in the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Blue Ruin, death wish, I Saw the Devil, John Wick, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, The Brave One, The Crow, The Foreigner, The Nightingale, Unforgiven

Rooting For The Villain

August 3, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A good villain can make or break your film or series. A great one might just have an audience root for them… Any genre film or series that gets boiled down to good vs evil in its basest form, needs a good villain. Luke Skywalker needs Darth Vader and the Emperor. Sometimes you can just […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Television, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: anthony starr, Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, The Boys, The Dark Knight

The Best ‘So Bad It’s Good’ Horror Movies

August 1, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at the best of the worst horror films… Mastering the perfect ‘bad movie’ is hard. Many believe that once a film is deemed trash, it’s instantly redeemable. This is the moment that will tell you otherwise; some bad movies are really good. We’ve compiled a collection of “So Bad It’s Good’ horror […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies Tagged With: blood diner, bloody birthday, Deep Blue Sea, Detention, Eaten Alive, Jigoku, My Super Psycho Sweet 16, Sleepwalkers

The Gruesome Brilliance of 1980s Italian Horror Cinema

July 25, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe goes back to the 80s to look at a crazy, gore-filled period in Italian horror cinema… There’s a great legacy in Italian horror. Most famously, the giallo films which rose to prominence through the 60’s and 70’s (led first by Mario Bava, and taken to new heights via Dario Argento) put Italian horror […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bruno Mattei, Cannibal Holocaust, Cemetery Man, City of the Living Dead, Dario Argento, Demons, Lamberto Bava, Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava, Michele Soavi, Nightmare City, Opera, Phenomena, Ruggero Deodato, the beyond, the church, Touch of Death

7 Underappreciated Final Girls in Horror

July 18, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at horror’s underrated final girls… A Final Girl is defined as the “last girl(s) or woman alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story.” But horror fans know that she’s much more than that. From kicking ass to inspiring a younger generation, we’ve seen some iconic final […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Amber Midthunder, Amy Steel, Ashley Laurence, Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th: Part 2, Hellraiser, Hostel: Part II, Hush, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jessica Harper, Kate Siegel, Lauren German, Predator, PREY, Suspiria, Tales From the Crypt, tales from the crypt: demon knight

The Most Shocking Movies of the 1970s

July 13, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno with seven disturbing movies of the 1970s… The 1970s is often regarded as a massive turning point in American culture. It’s seen as a tumultuous time for women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays, and lesbians; all are fighting for equal rights. This cultural fight is set with the protest against the ongoing war […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies Tagged With: A Clockwork Orange, Caligula, Hanzo the Razor: The Snare, I Spit On Your Grave, Pink Flamingos, Salo, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, Thriller: A Cruel Picture

8 Essential Feel-Good British Underdog Movies

June 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Classic underdog stories with loveable losers searching for a rare win in life are a staple of British cinema. Here are eight essentials…  British cinema is full of great and inspiring underdog stories, occasionally based on true stories, about loveable good-hearted losers who happen upon one big moment to succeed in life. Even if it’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Billy Elliot, Blinded by the Light, Eddie the Eagle, I Daniel Blake, Paddington, Shaun of the Dead, The Full Monty, The Phantom of the Open

The Essential Tony Scott Movies

June 21, 2024 by admin

Hasitha Fernando on the essential Tony Scott movies… Apart from being the younger brother of the legendary Ridley Scott, filmmaker Tony Scott too boasted his fair share of critically acclaimed box office efforts. And so, on what would have been his 80th birthday, we dive in to look back at Scott’s career to pick out […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Beverly Hills Cop 2, crimson tide, Days of Thunder, Enemy of the State, Man on Fire, Spy Game, The Last Boy Scout, Tony Scott, Top Gun, True Romance, Unstoppable

MTV Generation-Era Comedies That Need New Sequels

June 9, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Happy Gilmore 2 is on the way, but what other MTV generation-era comedies deserve revisiting? Here’s ten… Adam Sandler’s about to take to the fairways again with the triumphant return of Happy Gilmore. The slacker-turned-unorthodox golf pro lit up the screens in the mid-90s and got into a fistfight with Bob Barker. It was a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Ace Ventura, Airheads, Beavis and Butthead, Dead Man On Campus, Deuce Bigelow, Encino Man, Happy Gilmore 2, Office Space, Wayne's World, Young Einstein

The Most Iconic Cult Classics of All Time

June 6, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno on the most iconic cult classics… What does it take for a film to be considered a “cult classic?” Many define it as a movie that is popular among a particular group, but for me, that isn’t always the case. Some cult classics can become larger than life presences in the industry, taking […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Akira, Bottle Rocket, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Labyrinth, Naked Lunch, Pink Flamingos, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Big Lebowski, The Greasy Strangler, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the room, Transformers: The Movie, Troll 2

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