It’s Halloween season, as if you needed an excuse to watch some horror, so go wild with these batsh*t crazy movies…Spooky season is upon us, and Santa is waiting in the background, ready to unleash the Christmas festivities upon us with overpriced chocolate selection tins. For the macabre among you, who much prefer Shocktober to […]
Five Essential Nicolas Cage Horror Movies
Casey Chong with five essential Nicolas Cage horror movies…Mock him or diss him all you want because there’s no denying that Nicolas Cage has been enjoying a renaissance over the last few years. Just not the kind of big mainstream Hollywood successes that he used to have in the ‘90s and ‘00s heydays seen in […]
18 Horror Movies From the Past Decade That You Might Have Missed
Hasitha Fernando with a selection of horrors from the past decade that you might have missed…Horror films are a dime-a-dozen, but really good ones? Now that’s a rare commodity. As always some of these good horror films have a tendency of flying under the radar of audiences due to them being indie-films with limited engagements […]
10 Crazy Cult Horror Movies You Need To See
Go big or go home with these ten horror movies that dial the crazy up to the max…The horror genre is experiencing a boom right now with plenty of popular films destined to be cult favourites. You can have subtle, atmosphere-driven horror, folk, mind-bending cerebral horror and more. You can also have a horror film […]
Ten Great Comeback Performances
A career slump is often impossible to escape from but sometimes, just sometimes, a performer gets a shot and delivers a comeback performance that puts them back in the spotlight…Hollywood is a fickle place. One minute you can be hot and the next not. Whether it’s a run-of-flops or the wrong kind of infamy, an […]
Is Cinema On Its Last Legs?
After some notable big-budget bombs, is the big screen experience on its last legs?Remember Barbenheimer? It felt like a shot of adrenaline that could reinvigorate a struggling big screen industry with audiences preferring to catch films on streaming. Had you been asked about your expectations for the success of a three-hour biopic of Oppenheimer and […]
How To Be Unique In Cinema
Tom Jolliffe delves into what makes a film truly unique…If you’ve watched Captain America, or Spider-Man, or another masked hero, you’ve pretty much seen a variation on the same film. Genres themselves have clearly identifiable tropes and an action film for example, will often adhere to specific action genre calling cards. That doesn’t necessarily mean […]
The Cult of Cults in Movies
Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s preoccupation with Cults… Minor Spoilers Follow…Film has always had a fascination with the odd. It delights in the macabre, the outsiders, and in portraying the sects who lurk off the grid, away from the rest of us. There was a particular shift toward the idea of cults especially after the Charles […]
Why Cinema Needs Nicolas Cage Cranked Up to 11
Tom Jolliffe on why Nicolas Cage at his wildest is a gift to cinema…To say Nic Cage is a divisive character would be quite the understatement. Likewise, as an actor. You could say, with great understatement, that he’s an oddball. As an actor, you could also say he tends to be most known for theatrical […]
The 10 Must-See Movies At Sundance 2018
Ben Robins on the ten must-see movies at Sundance 2018…The ridiculously celebrated indie festival to end all indie festivals will return for another banner year in January, and it’s no doubt set to be another big one. Having kicked off the careers of everyone from the Coen Brothers to Tarantino to most recently, Whiplash and […]
