We take a look at a great year for cinema with ten essential movies from 1976… A stellar year in cinema can sometimes be judged by the strength of the best picture nominees. Then you could look again in a decade or two and see which films have accrued a loyal cult following and been […]
Movie Review – Die My Love (2025)
Die My Love, 2025. Directed by Lynne Ramsay. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, Gabrielle Rose, Sarah Lind and Debs Howard. SYNOPSIS: Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and […]
2026 Sundance Film Festival Review – Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant, 2026. Directed by Thunderlips. Starring Hannah Lynch, Yvette Parsons, Arlo Green, Jackie van Beek, Jonny Brugh, Karen O’Leary, Ariadne Baltazar, Angella Dravid, Renee Lyons, Ian Mune, Donogh Rees, Brenda Kendall, Fasitua Amosa, Rashmi Pilapitiya, and Barry Te Hira. SYNOPSIS: When a messy millennial underachiever accidentally gets alien-pregnant she must overcome sceptical […]
Eight Essential Maika Monroe Performances
Casey Chong on the essential Maika Monroe performances… One of the most promising young actresses working today, the Santa Barbara-born Maika Monroe is often synonymous with the horror genre, thanks in no small part to her breakthrough performance in It Follows. But she isn’t the type who is pigeonholed as a strictly horror movie actress, […]
Trailer for folk horror The Morrigan starring Saffron Burrows, Toby Stephens and James Cosmo
Ahead of its digital release this February, a trailer has arrived online for writer-director Colum Eastwood’s folk horror The Morrigan. The film centres on an archaeologist who specialises in Gaelic mythology as she travels with her teenage daughter to Ireland to uncover an long-dead tomb, inadvertently awakening a vengeful Pagan war goddess. The cast includes […]
10 Great Cult B-Movies of the VHS Era
Lower your brow and grab the popcorn as it’s time to look at ten unmissable cult B-movie gems of the VHS era… The point of the humble B-movie (which has effectively now become the A-movie as far as mainstream tent pole cinema is concerned), was -without too many airs or graces or deep psychological study […]
Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire Shimo Exquisite Basic Series figure unleashed by Hiya Toys
Hiya Toys has unveiled its Exquisite Basic+ Series Shimo action figure which is inspired by the appearance of the Titan in 2024 MonsterVerse blockbuster Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. The collectible is scheduled for release in Q1 2027, priced at $119.99; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Mothra […]
Supergirl teaser introduces Jason Momoa’s Lobo
Aquaman star Jason Momoa is making a quick return to the newly-rebooted DC Universe, albeit not in the role of Arthur Curry but rather as the intergalactic antihero Lobo, and the latest promo for the upcoming Supergirl movie has now given us our first real glimpse of Momoa as the Main Man; check it out […]
80s-set horror-comedy Blood Barn gets a trailer from Screambox
Screambox has shared a trailer for Blood Barn, the 80s-set horror-comedy from writer-director Gabriel Bernini. To celebrate their final weekend together before they head off to college, camp counsellor Josie invites her friends to a party at her family’s secluded barn, but as the celebrations get underway the night spirals out of control when the […]
Marvel announces Alien: King Killer limited series
Marvel Comics has officially announced the next chapter in its Alien comic book saga, Alien: King Killer, a new five-issue limited series from writer Saladin Ahmed (Wolverine) and artist Carlos Nieto (Ultimate Black Panther), which promises “to deliver the darkest era of the Alien universe yet”. “I’m old enough to remember Aliens landing at the theaters after […]
