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Great Movies Guaranteed To Creep You Out

May 24, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of unsettling cinema that are guaranteed to creep you out… Every film has a particular D.N.A. Within this cinematic coding it can feature elements synonymous with a particular genre, or techniques to give the film an overriding tone. For horror, the film-makers could mould their film in a variety […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Audition, Blue Velvet, cure, Hard Candy, Misery, Nightcrawler, Repulsion, Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist, The Shining

20 Great Performances from the Past Decade

December 28, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at 20 great performances from the past decade… There have been plenty of legendary performances through the years. Some gain the greatest of acclaim from the off, culminating in Oscar glory. Others hit below the radar, or don’t get the marketing push required for an Oscar run. Award season is in […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 12 Years a Slave, Adam Sandler, Anthony Hopkins, Avengement, Burning, Chadwick Boseman, Elle, Frances McDormand, Hereditary, isabelle huppert, jake gyllenhaal, jk simmons, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, Locke, Lupita Nyong'o, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, mads mikkelsen, Nightcrawler, olivia colman, Parasite, Scarlett Johannson, Scott Adkins, Song Kang-ho, Steven Yeun, The Father, The Favourite, The Hunt, The Lighthouse, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tom Hardy, Toni Collette, Uncut Gems, Under the Skin, Viola Davis, Whiplash, Willem Dafoe

Comic Book Preview – X-Men: Giant-Size Nightcrawler #1

March 23, 2020 by Amie Cranswick

Marvel Comics releases X-Men: Giant-Size Nightcrawler #1 this Wednesday, and you can find a preview of the issue right here… Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman teams with legendary artist Alan Davis (X-MEN, EXCALIBUR, AVENGERS) for an eerie tale of adventure! When the X-Men lose contact with the Greymalkin Habitat, it falls to Nightcrawler to lead a […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Comic Book Previews, Comic Books Tagged With: Marvel, Nightcrawler, X-Men, X-Men: Giant-Size Nightcrawler

4 Great Films About Loners (That Look At The Darker Side of Loneliness)

June 17, 2017 by Graeme Robertson

Graeme Robertson with four great films about loners… Do you ever feel lonely dear readers? Do you ever sometimes feel that you just don’t quite fit in with the rest of the world? I’ll admit that I sometimes I feel this way in certain situations. Often at a social event like a party or whatever, […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Graeme Robertson, Movies Tagged With: May, Nightcrawler, One Hour Photo, Taxi Driver

Rene Russo set to join Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones for Villa Capri

June 11, 2016 by Scott J. Davis

Deadline is reporting that Nightcrawler star Rene Russo is in talks to join the upcoming action comedy Villa Capri, which would see her reunite with her Tin Cup director Ron Shelton. Shelton, who also helmed Bull Durham and White Men Can’t Jump, has written the script as well as taking on directing duties, and the film […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Scott Davis Tagged With: Morgan Freeman, Nightcrawler, Rene Russo, Ron Shelton, Tommy Lee Jones, Villa Capri

A response to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and directors who might be jealous of comic book movies

March 4, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Anthony Stokes with a response to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and directors who might be jealous of comic book movies… We’re in the age of cinema that focuses on comic book movies and as such everybody is talking about them, even big powerhouse directors. Some, like Kenneth Branagh and Paul Thomas Anderson, speak positively of them. […]

Filed Under: Anthony Stokes, Articles and Opinions, Movies Tagged With: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman, Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler

DVD Review – Nightcrawler (2014)

March 2, 2015 by Luke Owen

Nightcrawler, 2014 Written and directed by Dan Gilroy Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Riz Ahmed SYNOPSIS: When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort […]

Filed Under: Luke Owen, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Bill Paxton, Dan Gilroy, jake gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed

The Grand Budapest Hotel leads the 2015 EE BAFTA Film Nominations

January 9, 2015 by Luke Owen

This morning at BAFTA HQ in Piccadilly, the Nominations for this year’s BAFTAS were announced by Stephen Fry and The Hunger Games star Sam Clafin. No huge surprises in many of the nominations, as many of the big hitters throughout this year’s award season are present and correct, with The Grand Budapest Hotel receiving the […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Movies, News, Scott Davis Tagged With: Birdman, Boyhood, British Academy Film Awards, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler, pride, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash

Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2014

December 31, 2014 by Gary Collinson

Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2014… As 2014 draws to a close, we’re already salivating over what’s in store for us in 2015, but before we get to the New Year it’s time to revist our favourite films from the past twelve months. As usual, our writers here at Flickering […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Special Features Tagged With: Birdman, Boyhood, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Gone Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy, Nightcrawler, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The LEGO Movie, Whiplash

IMDb’s Top 50 Highest Rated Movies of 2014

December 18, 2014 by Gary Collinson

Earlier this week we brought you a list of the most Facebooked movies and TV shows of the year [see here], and now the IMDb has released a list of the top 50 highest-rated English-language movies of the year (with at least 5000 votes). Here they are, in descending order… 50. Veronica Mars (6.9) 49. […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: 22 Jump Street, A Most Wanted Man, Big Hero 6, Birdman, Boyhood, Calvary, camp x-ray, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Chef, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Edge of Tomorrow, Frank, Fury, Gone Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy, How to Train Your Dragon 2, I Origins, if i stay, Interstellar, Jersey Boys, John Wick, Maleficent, Million Dollar Arm, Nightcrawler, Non-Stop, Penguins of Madagascar, Predestination, pride, st vincent, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Book of Life, The Boxtrolls, The Drop, The Equalizer, The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Guest, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hundred-Foot Journey, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, The Imitation Game, the judge, The LEGO Movie, The Maze Runner, The One I Love, The Skeleton Twins, The Theory of Everything, Veronica Mars, Whiplash, X-Men: Days of Future Past

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