The tickets are flying off the shelves, the popcorn is stacking up higher than the tallest tower, the cosplayers are strapping into their plastic armour and parading down to their local cinema. The force has awakened and its the start of erasing the memory of the prequels from existence. The magic of the original trilogy…
1. Gremlins A boy who has been sold a tiny furry animal by a reluctant shopkeeper in chinatown manages to inadvertently break 3 important rules concerning his new pet and accidently unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. Never ignore the three simple rules: No water (violated), no food after midnight (violated), and…
Make no mistake – this is a bad movie. This is a film about a high school stud who gets murdered, then starts traveling between dimensions, assumes the spirit of a souped up sports car, which then starts extracting bloody and explosive revenge on the people who wronged him by driving them off the road….
Known for portraying intense characters, the Hateful Eight actor explains why you shouldn’t be afraid of being a bad guy. One of the great character actors of his generation, Tim Roth displays such skill and nuance that he’s become a favourite with moviegoers despite playing a vile assortment of killers, creeps and cunningly awful miscreants….
There are very few horror locations able to live up to the unsettling air that surrounds the “little house on the prairie”. The claustrophobic density of trees engulfing a cabin in the woods is one thing but there’s nothing quite like the vast plains reaching out to horizon, impenetrable walls of crops for miles around…
So the NEW Morphsuits animated Christmas Jumper selection has arrived just in time for Save The Children’s Christmas Jumper Day on December 18th! We managed to get our hands on one thanks to the awesome staff over at Morphsuits. Look Stylish in your Animated Christmas Jumper Using the latest Digital Dudz jumper technology, this brand…
You’ll know within the first few minutes of the impossible to completely describe and classify film Hard To Be A God if you’re going to make it through all three hours of this carnival of cinematic madness. In production for 13 years with director Aleksei German passing away before the film could be fully completed…
Crowdfunding has become so common-place that it’s an accepted part of film funding strategy. Not only do filmmakers receive some much-needed financial support but it also enables them to gauge support for their films and galvanise their fans. This has been spectacularly successful in relation to Veronica Mars, Zach Braff and Spike Lee films. In…
Ted is back in the sequel that no-one was particularly begging for, as its distinctly average figures at the US Box Office will attest. Sharing the meandering style of plot, Seth MacFarlane’s follow-up is even less consistent than its predecessor, weakly structured across nearly 2 hours of run time. To call the narrative “thin” is…
The insane German import Wetlands is singular, gross, nauseating, highly sexual, strange, lovely, smart, insane, icky, depraved, uber-graphic, and sort of monumental. It’s never, ever going to be remade for American audiences and it’s likely to appeal strictly to fans of “cinema-as-art.” I’ve never seen anything remotely like it. You get to see a POV…
The Christmas season is quickly approaching. Have you been waiting for it or has it rolled around with as much a shock as a bauble straight to the face? Either way, let’s flash forward to when it’s all done and dusted. The Christmas tree is still up, but the Turkey’s in the bin and the…
The End of the Tour focuses on a long weekend in the life of deceased author David Foster Wallace, whose 1996 novel, Infinite Jest, became a literary sensation and cultural touchstone for an entire generation. Bolstered by two terrific performances by Jason Segel (as Wallace) and Jesse Eisenberg (as then Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky),…
Paul Schrader’s script included some shout-outs to his decades earlier work in Taxi Driver, but this was its own thing, based on Joe Connelly’s bleak novel, and looking at a particular lifetstyle we don’t see too often on screen. Nicolas Cage was electrifying here — it’s a truly bravura big-screen performance, filled with the customary…
With the release of Star Wars The Force Awakens approaching faster than you can say “Han shot first” everyone has the force on their mind. Whether you’re a fan of the original trilogy exclusively or if you think the prequels brought something new and exciting to the story we’re certain you’ve been thinking a lot…
I’m always wholly fascinated by this film, and it’s something I feel that’s worth revisiting every year because of how it uses aesthetics to drive the plot. Boarding Gate is genre-hopper Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Summer Hours, Irma Vep) doing a sort-of Michael Mann-esque anti-thriller that’s more cerebral than crammed with action. It’s the kind of…
I find myself frequently coming back to this title over the last few months. Emperor of the North, aka Emperor of the North Pole, is an exceedingly masculine film. You can smell the cinematic machismo dripping off of Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine all throughout this beefy action-adventure from man’s man director Robert Aldrich (The…
