EJ Moreno believes its time that M. Night Shyamalan receives the respect he deserves… Lady In The Water. The Happening. The Last Airbender. These are arguably the lowest points in the filmography of M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan helmed fifteen feature films in his career, and the entire perception of this filmmaker fell into such negativity […]
Underrated Found Footage Horror Movies
Marvelous Videos with ten underrated found footage horror movies… The found footage genre can be hit-or-miss. It’s low budget essentially means you’re not getting much in the way of cinematic or trailer moments, and the camera placement can very easily trigger queasy-cam vibes. But it also means you’re likely to get an honest product from […]
M. Night Shyamalan self-financed The Visit, Split and Glass
After bursting onto the scene back in 1999 with The Sixth Sense, director M. Night Shyamalan quickly earned a reputation as one of the most exciting filmmakers in Hollywood, only for his star to fade as he went from the likes of Unbreakable and Signs to abominations such as The Happening, The Last Airbender and […]
Are we still interested in Unbreakable 2?
Anghus Houvouras on whether there’s still interest in an Unbreakable sequel… In the year 2000 there might not have been a bigger M. Night Shyamalan fan than yours truly. The Sixth Sense was a sucker punch of a movie; I didn’t see the quality or the cultural zeitgeist coming. I remember buying a ticket with […]
Everest climbs to the summit of the UK box office chart
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 18th September to Sunday 20th September 2015… Director Baltasar Kormakur’s star-studded survival thriller Everest has topped the UK box office chart in its opening weekend, with the film pulling in £3,160,154 to dethrone the Tom Hardy-headlined gangster biopic Legend. Three other newcomers managed […]
Tom Hardy’s Legend tops the UK box office chart
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 11th September to Sunday 13th September 2015… It was all change at the top of the UK box office this past weekend with three newcomers occupying the top spots in the chart, led by the Tom Hardy-headlined Legend, whcih pulled in an impressive […]
Movie Review – The Visit (2015)
The Visit, 2015. Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie and Kathryn Hahn. SYNOPSIS: A single mother finds that things in her family’s life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents. The Visit is an odd movie. Billed as a horror film […]
Second Opinion – The Visit (2015)
The Visit, 2015. Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie and Kathryn Hahn. SYNOPSIS: A young filmmaker and her wannabe rapper brother get more than they bargained for when they spend a bizarre week with their grandparents, whose one rule is that the kids don’t leave […]
Movie Review – The Visit (2015)
The Visit, 2015. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie and Kathryn Hahn. SYNOPSIS: Two siblings visit their estranged grandparents for a week. Filming all of it as an attempt to reunite the grandparents with their mother after years of not speaking, the footage soon turns out to […]