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Returning to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

December 25, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

For three consecutive years it was a huge Christmas big screen event, so how does The Lord of the Rings trilogy hold up today? Does it sometimes feel like the Christmas season can lack a really standout, all-consuming big screen event? Over the years, there have been some huge movies drop over the Christmas holidays […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Rhys-Davies, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Viggo Mortensen

10 Horror Movies That Subvert Audience Expectations

December 21, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with ten horror films that subvert audience expectations… Whether you’re a seasoned horror fan or not, sometimes it’s cool to have your expectations shattered, rather than getting exactly what you might be expecting out of a horror movie. Is there something wrong with a films that do the opposite? Nope! However, it’s nice […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: high tension, In a Violent Nature, Scream 4, Shuttle, Strange Darling, The Cabin in the Woods, The Strangers, Triangle, Would You Rather

10 Essential Cult Classic 80s Movies You Need To See

December 21, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with ten great cult classic 1980s movies you need to see… The cult film. From the obscure gems with an undying loyalty from their small following, to the mass cults who followed Star Wars back in the 80s. Sometimes a film just strikes a chord and has a certain unique charm or imperfect […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: After Hours, Lifeforce, Miracle Mile, Repo Man, Streets of Fire, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Hidden, The Paperhouse, The Quiet Earth, To Live and Die in L.A.

10 Terrifying Bath Scenes in Horror Movies

December 20, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong presents a selection of terrifying bath scenes from horror movies… Taking a bath is supposed to be a relaxing me-time moment. But in the world of horror films, this might come across as a confined situation for all things morbid. An unfortunate character could end up drowning in a bathtub filled with bubbly […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Arachnophobia, Final Destination, Mirrors, Psycho, slither, The Shining, The Tingler, What Lies Beneath

90s Guilty Pleasure Thrillers So Bad They’re Actually Good

December 19, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong presents a selection of ‘so bad they’re good’ thrillers of the 1990s that are worth adding to your watchlist… The 1990s were a decade that saw an influx of great thrillers, covering movies like Misery, Pacific Heights, The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en, to name a few. The same decade also included […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Annabella Sciorra, Antonio Banderas, Bruce Beresford, Christopher Crowe, Damian Harris, Deceived, Desperate Hours, Elias Koteas, Goldie Hawn, John Dahl, Kelly Lynch, Lara Flynn Boyle, Liv Tyler, Michael Cimino, Mickey Rourke, Never Talk to Strangers, Peter Hall, Phillip Noyce, Ray Liotta, Rebecca De Mornay, Richard Dreyfuss, Sharon Stone, Silent Fall, Sliver, The Temp, Timothy Hutton, Tom Holland, Unforgettable, Whispers in the Dark

7 Movies About Influencers for Your Watchlist

December 13, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong presents seven movies about influencer culture that are worth adding to your watchlist… Influencer culture, encompassing social media influencers and vloggers, is frequently being portrayed in a bad light. This is particularly true with the curated, too-good-to-be-true content posted on social media for followers and anyone who comes across the post while scrolling. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Deadstream, Followed, Influencer, Mainstream, Shook, Superhost, Sweat

10 Forgotten Erotic Thrillers Worth Revisiting

December 11, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong presents a selection of forgotten erotic thrillers for your watch list… Erotic thrillers may have significantly dwindled in today’s era, even though this subgenre does make a splash – for better or worse – occasionally with movies like the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Netflix’s Fair Play and the recently Nicole Kidman starrer […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Blue Steel, Bound, Chloe, Color of Night, Crash, Femme Fatale, Jade, Payback, Sea of Love, The Fourth Man

From Banned to Beloved: Video Nasties That Deserve Critical Re-evaluation

December 6, 2025 by admin

Adam Page delves into the world of the video nasty to see which of the controversial shockers deserve critical re-evaluation… I get it, I really do. Back when Mary Whitehouse and her gang of pearl-clutching warriors put together their list of 72 movies they deemed too dangerous for the British public in 1984, they were […]

Filed Under: Adam Page, Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Cannibal Holocaust, Don’t Go In The House, Gestapo’s Last Orgy, I Spit On Your Grave, Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, SS Experiment Camp, Tenebrae, the beyond, The Driller Killer, The House by the Cemetery, The Last House on the Left, Zombie Flesh Eaters

The Essential Joel Edgerton Movies

December 6, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Joel Edgerton may well be Mr Underrated in Hollywood. Here are his essential movies… Joel Edgerton’s illustrious career has been anything but predictable. The Australian character actor has had a seamless ability to inhabit an eclectic range of characters. Hollywood has increasingly leaned toward pretty boy actors and a focus on aesthetics over personality. Edgerton […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: It Comes at Night, joel edgerton, loving, the gift, The Green Knight, The Stranger, Train Dreams, Warrior

8 Forgotten 80s Mystery Movies Worth Investigating

November 30, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong with a curated selection of forgotten 80s mystery movies for you to investigate… By the 1980s, Hollywood had seen a significant shift in its pop culture and filmmaking style, moving away from the auteur-driven era that defined the previous decade. The commercial success of mid-1970s hits, including Jaws and Star Wars, ushered in […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: D.O.A., Deathtrap, Eyewitness, Jack's Back, Masquerade, The Bedroom Window, The Caller, The Janitor

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