Simon Thompson explores the career of the late, great David Lynch… To start this article off as simply as possible, David Lynch, one of American cinema’s greatest idiosyncratic directors is gone. While I knew that his health had sadly taken a turn for the worse since 2020, it still feels almost impossible to come to […]
Overlooked Horror Actors and Their Best Performance
While these actors aren’t specifically known for horror, their work in the genre is easy to overlook… Within the horror community, we often focus our admiration and attention on some of the more iconic actors. If it’s classics like Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee to modern icons like Sarah Michelle Gellar or Bruce Campbell, we […]
The Essential Movies About Memory
Tattoo this list to your chest, because you’ll want to remember these essential films about memory… The brain is a complex machine and memories are a fascinating and complicated part of being human. As a cinematic motif, memory has provided filmmakers with a huge amount of inspiration in so many unforgettable films. We’ve seen films […]
Back to 2001: Ten Essential Movies from Twenty Years Ago
Tom Jolliffe ventures back 20 years to 2001 and offers up 10 essential films from that year… It’s a little bit frightening but 20 years ago we had become well ensconced in the 21st century. The first apocalypse had been averted and we were slowly ambling toward 2012 hoping the Mayans were wrong (spoiler alert, […]
David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive gets 20th Anniversary 4K restoration release
Studiocanal and Criterion have announced the upcoming home entertainment release of the brand new 4K restoration of David Lynch’s surrealist mystery-drama Mulholland Drive, supervised by the filmmaker himself, which will arrive in a special 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition set this December. The 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition includes the 4K restoration which premiered earlier this year […]
Confusing The Audience And Getting Away With It
Tom Jolliffe on the art of confusing an audience and getting praised for it…. Cinema and TV is full of fine margins. There’s a real artistry in how a film (or show) can manipulate the viewer. As a viewer you are taken on a journey. Sometimes said journey is simple. A to B to C. […]
I Don’t Get It: The Films We’re Supposed To Love But Don’t
Tom Jolliffe looks at when films receive almost universal praise from critics and audiences, and an expectation that you should also love them. It’s not always the case… The year is 2001. At this point I’ve already seen a few David Lynch films. I’d never (still haven’t) got round to Twin Peaks. I sort of […]
Doubling Up: Five Great Female Movie Partnerships
Freda Cooper with five great female movie partnerships… After last week’s classic pairing of Laurel and Hardy (aka Steve Coogan and John C Reilly) in Stan & Ollie comes one of the most exciting on-screen double acts for some time. The prospect of Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I and Saoirse Ronan as Mary, Queen Of […]
Does This List Really Reveal The Best Films Of The Century?
This week, Neil Calloway takes a look at a list claiming to reveal the best films of the 21st Century… Earlier this week, casual film fans were sent running first to IMDB and then to Netflix or Amazon at the news that David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive was named in a poll of 177 film critics […]
