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Oscars: What Should Have Won – Network over Rocky for Best Picture

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Graeme Robertson on why Network should have won Best Picture at the 49th Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best of 1976 were a rarity, in that, almost all of the nominees for Best Picture are truly excellent and have gone on to become celebrated classics. While Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky ultimately triumphed against its formidable […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 5 – Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984)

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Don’t Open Till Christmas, 1984. Directed by Edmund Purdom. Starring Edmund Purdom, Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne, Gerry Sundquist and Mark Jones. SYNOPSIS: A serial killer is stalking the streets of London, specifically targeting people dressed up as Santa Claus, and Scotland Yard is at a loss as to who the culprit might be. However, as […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 4 – Gremlins (1984)

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Gremlins, 1984. Directed by Joe Dante. Starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday and Francis Lee McCain. SYNOPSIS: Young Billy receives a rather unusual Christmas gift from his father in the form of a furry little creature called a Mogwai. Christening the fuzzy pet Gizmo, Billy is given three strict rules on how […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 3 – Christmas Evil (1980)

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Christmas Evil, 1980. Directed by Lewis Jackson. Starring Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull and Andy Fenwick. SYNOPSIS: After being mentally scarred by the realisation that Santa Claus doesn’t exist, toy factory worker Harry strives to take on the role of St Nicholas himself keeping an eye on the local neighbourhood children and noting who […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 1 – Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)

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Silent Night, Bloody Night, 1972. Directed by Theodore Gershuny. Starring Patrick O’Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov and John Carradine. SYNOPSIS: It’s Christmas Eve in a small town, when a murderer begins a killing spree against many of the town’s important figures, in apparent act of revenge relating to the horrific death of Wilfred Butler, whose […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror – Day 9: Black Mirror – White Christmas (2014)

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Black Mirror: White Christmas, 2014. Directed by Carl Tibbets. Starring Jon Hamm, Oona Chaplin and Rafe Spall. SYNOPSIS: Two strangers stationed at an isolated Arctic outpost tell each other three twisted festive tales each with a technological theme and a connection to the dark pasts of both men. We return once again to quite possibly […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 6 – Child’s Play (1988)

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Child’s Play, 1988. Directed by Tom Holland. Starring Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon. SYNOPSIS: Widowed mother Karen is eager for her young son Andy to have the best birthday possible so she buys him a Good Guy doll named Chucky, a toy that Andy had been desperate to have. After her […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 2 – Black Christmas (1974)

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Black Christmas, 1974. Directed by Bob Clark. Starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder and John Saxon. SYNOPSIS: It’s Christmas time and a group of sorority sisters are getting ready for their break from study to celebrate the holidays with their families when they begin to receive a series of obscene phone calls from a […]

Does The Last of Us Need a Film Adaptation?

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Graeme Robertson on whether The Last of Us needs a film adaptation… Video game adaptations are nothing new; with Hollywood in its infinite wisdom thinking that whatever works on the games console, must surely work on the big screen, churning out video game movie after video game movie. We’ve had film versions of Resident Evil, […]

Movie Review – The Snare (2017)

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The Snare, 2017. Directed by C.A. Cooper. Starring Eiofa Forward, Dan Paton, Rachel Warren and Stuart Nurse. SYNOPSIS: Three friends decide to get away for a break, staying at an empty apartment block owned by the parents of one of them. However, due to various circumstances, the trio find themselves trapped on one of the […]