Ricky Church pays tribute to the late Sean Connery… A beautiful woman plays cards against an unseen man. Cards are dealt and the mysterious man moves his hands, glancing at his cards and plays without a word. After a bout, he admires the woman’s gameplay as he takes a cigarette out of his shiny metal […]
TV Review – HBO’s The Undoing
Martin Carr reviews HBO’s The Undoing… This slick and stylish psychological thriller adapted for the screen by David E. Kelley is supremely engaging. High society living, private prep school fund raisers and understated opulence define this Manhattan based murder mystery. Based on the bestselling novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz it introduces Grace Fraser and Jonathan […]
What Makes a Great Horror Concept?
Tom Jolliffe on what makes a great horror concept… No doubt many film fans will be having a particular focus on the horror genre right as we work our way to Halloween. The genre is loaded with the great, and the not so great (and everything in between). The key to horror has always been […]
New Children of the Corn movie gets a poster and first-look images
Having been one of the only productions to shoot during the recent lockdown, writer-director Kurt Wimmer’s Children of the Corn – a prequel to the 1984 Stephen King adaptation and the twelth instalment in the long-running horror movie franchise – has quietly crept into a handful of cinemas in North America with very little fanfare […]
Clive Barker returns to the Hellraiser franchise for upcoming HBO series
Earlier in the year, HBO announced a new version of the horror series Hellraiser was in development, with David Gordon Green (Halloween) directing the pilot and several other episodes, and Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat) writing alongside Mark Verheiden (Swamp Thing). And now we can add one more name to the mix, and it’s the […]
Comic Book Preview – DCeased: Dead Planet #5
DCeased: Dead Planet continues this Tuesday with the release of issue #5, and we’ve got the official preview for you here; take a look… With most of the Justice League off Earth, John Constantine and Batman lead a covert team on a mission so insane it could have only been hatched by the man they […]
8 Horror TV Shows to Binge Watch This Halloween
Hasitha Fernando with eight horror TV shows to binge this Halloween… It’s October. It’s spooky time. And what better way to celebrate Halloween than kicking back and binge-watching a few scary TV series that are readily available on some of your streaming services? But with the availability of multiple streaming platforms, which churn out content […]
R.I.P. Sean Connery (1930 – 2020)
Legendary Scottish actor Sean Connery has passed away aged 90, his family has announced today. As reported by the BBC, the BAFTA and Oscar-winning screen icon died in his sleep while in the Bahamas, having been unwell for some time. No specific cause of death has been revealed. Born in Edinburgh in 1930, Connery worked […]
The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Marshal’
Ricky Church reviews the premiere episode of The Mandalorian season 2… After nearly a year away, The Mandalorian has returned with its second season as Mando (now known to us as Din Djarin) is on a quest to reunite The Child with his mysterious species. The second season premiere, ‘The Marshal’, was a welcome return as Din […]
October Horrors 2020 – The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
The Cabin in the Woods, 2012. Directed by Drew Goddard. Starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford. SYNOPSIS: A group of friends embark upon a getaway to an isolated cabin in the woods, where they forced to fight for their lives against a group of undead […]
