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Made for Cinemas: Can Sinners Save the Big Screen Experience?

April 26, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Original films have been met with apathy lately, but can Sinners help turn that tide and save the big screen experience? Without sounding like a broken record, it’s pretty clear that the studios greenlighting the majority of Hollywood’s tentpole pictures steer hugely in favour of recognisable IPs. Whether it’s sequels, remakes, reboots, biopics, or adaptations […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: a minecraft movie, Michael B. Jordan, netflix, Ryan Coogler, sinners, the substance

16th Dorian Film Awards Nominations: Genre films The Substance and I Saw the TV Glow dominate

January 17, 2025 by EJ Moreno

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, consisting of over 500 entertainment critics, journalists and media icons, today announced the group’s democratically chosen nominees for its 16th Dorian Film Awards. The Dorians go to both mainstream and LGBTQ-themed content, celebrating what the group calls “the expert Q+ eye on entertainment.”  Leading with an impressive nine […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Dorian Awards, Emilia Pérez, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, i saw the tv glow, the substance

Movie Review – The Substance (2024)

January 6, 2025 by Robert Kojder

The Substance, 2024. Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat. Starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Gore Abrams, Hugo Diego Garcia, Olivier Raynal, Tiffany Hofstetter, Tom Morton, Jiselle Burkhalter, Axel Baille, Oscar Lesage, Matthew Géczy, Philip Schurer, Daniel Knight, Namory Bakayoko, and Bill Bentley. SYNOPSIS: A fading celebrity decides to use a black-market drug, a […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Axel Baille, Bill Bentley, Coralie Fargeat, Daniel Knight, Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Gore Abrams, hugo diego garcia, Jiselle Burkhalter, Margaret Qualley, Matthew Géczy, Namory Bakayoko, Olivier Raynal, Oscar Lesage, Philip Schurer, the substance, Tiffany Hofstetter, Tom Morton

Ten Great Comeback Performances

December 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Autumn Sonata, Brendan Fraser, Demi Moore, Ellen Burstyn, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ingrid Bergman, Iron Man, Jackie Brown, JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Travolta, Ke Huy Quan, Mandy, Matthew McConaughey, Mickey Rourke, Mud, Nicolas Cage, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pam Grier, Pamela Anderson, Pauly Shore, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Forster, Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone, The Court Jester, The Last Showgirl, the substance, the whale, The Wrestler, Uncut Gems

The 2024 Flickering Myth Horror Awards

December 28, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno and Flickering Myth honor the year in horror… Welcome to the second Flickering Myth Horror Awards, the place to spotlight the best in our beloved spooky genre. From fan-favorite horror outings to prestige heavyweights, this year’s landscape looks much different than the previous years. It’s great to see the genre thrive like this. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies Tagged With: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Coralie Fargeat, David Howard Thornton, Demi Moore, exhuma, longlegs, Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, Terrifier 3, The Deliverance, the substance, Tim Burton

10 Great Recent Horror Movies You Need To See

December 28, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Here are ten recent scarers you need to see… If mainstream cinema and blockbuster spectaculars have had a largely tough time finding traction with audiences in the past five years, horror films have had the exact opposite. The past decade has seen a healthy rise in inventive and boundary-pushing horror movies, with the past five […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barbarian, Censor, infinity pool, longlegs, men, Suitable Flesh, Talk to Me, Terrifier 2, The Lighthouse, the substance

How Indie Horror Went Mainstream in 2024

December 26, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at the rise of independent horror movies in 2024… What a knockout year for horror overall. While the point of this piece is to spotlight what a fantastic ride it’s been in the independent horror space, we’ve seen major studios drop surprising bangers like The First Omen and Smile 2. But we […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies Tagged With: A24, Heretic, IFC Films, Immaculate, Late Night With the Devil, longlegs, MaXXXine, Mubi, Neon, the substance, twisted childhood universe, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

100 Years of Horror: Unmissable Movies from 1924 to 2024

December 8, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We’re diving back through a hundred years of horror and picking one unmissable film every ten years from 1924 to 2024… The history of cinema, from silent pictures to a stellar selection of horror films this year alone, shows that the horror genre has plenty to offer discerning viewers. If you want to add some gems […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Black Christmas, Blood and Black Lace, Dumplings, Godzilla, Immaculate, It Follows, longlegs, MaXXXine, New Nightmare, Nightwatch, Onibaba, Saw, The Baby in the Basket, The Black Cat, the company of wolves, The First Omen, The Hands of Orlac, The Masque of the Red Death, the substance, The Terminator, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Uninvited

Are the Oscars Daring Enough to Nominate Demi Moore for The Substance?

October 12, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s the talk of cinephile circles and Demi Moore gives a career-best performance. But is The Substance too icky for the Oscars? At its best, cinema will sneak up on you and deliver something no one could have expected. A dazzling kaleidoscopic rollercoaster body horror starring Demi Moore? No one would have predicted a project […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Academy Awards, Coralie Fargeat, Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Margaret Qualley, Oscars, Revenge, the substance

Beetlejuice sequels holds strong against Transformers One at the box office

September 23, 2024 by EJ Moreno

Spooky season could be in full effect with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice triumphing over Transformers One. The new installment in Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment’s franchise [read our review here] sees an estimated $25 million from 3,978 theaters, compared to the estimated $26 million from the Beetlejuice sequel in 4,172 locations, now in its third weekend. This is […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Never Let Go, the substance, Transformers One

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