Here’s some movie recommendations for your New Year’s viewing… With 2025 hours away approaching, it’s time to see out the year. From attending a New Year’s Eve party with your buddies to watching fireworks illuminating the night sky, these are the few things you can do. Or how about keeping things simple by getting cozy […]
Incredible Character Actors Who Elevate Every Film
Simon Thompson with ten incredible character actors who are guaranteed to elevate any film… If movies and football have one thing in common it’s the fact that whilst having star names to get people in the building is all well and good, it’s what you have to bring off the bench that can make or […]
Sherlock Holmes at 15: The Story Behind Guy Ritchie’s Weirdly Fascinating Take on the Baker Street Super Sleuth
Hasitha Fernando on the story behind Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes… British writer and physician Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle would undoubtedly not have thought, even in his wildest dreams, the enduring power of the IP he created with his Baker Street super sleuth Sherlock Holmes. But such is the fascination we have with the iconic […]
The Best Live-Action Disney Remakes
Casey Chong delves into the Disney library to look at the Mouse House’s best live-action remakes… Disney’s penchant for unearthing its own library of animated features and turning them into live-action remakes has been a pivotal part of the moviemaking business since Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland became a huge hit. That 2020 movie eventually […]
Ranking Video Game Movie Sequels From Worst to Best
Casey Chong ranks video game movie sequels from worst to best… Video game movies tend to get a bad rap since filmmakers can’t seem to crack the code in giving what the fans want (remember the dismal Super Mario Bros. back in 1993?) But some of them manage to score enough profit to warrant a […]
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events at 20: A Gothic Visual Treat for Children and Adults Alike
Hasitha Fernando looks back at Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events as it celebrates its 20th anniversary… A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of popular novels penned by Daniel Handler under his pseudonym Lemony Snicket. Its big screen adaptation led by the inimitable Jim Carrey proved to be a solid take on […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Demolition Man (1993)
Demolition Man, 1993. Directed by Marco Brambilla. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Leary, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Gunton, Glenn Shadix, and Grand L. Bush. SYNOPSIS: In the year 2032, a cop frozen in suspended animation for 40 years is thawed out to catch the criminal he put away in the 1990s. […]
Blu-ray Review – The Stone Tape (1972)
The Stone Tape, 1972. Directed by Peter Sasdy. Starring Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Bates, James Cosmo, Neil Wilson, and Reginald Marsh. SYNOPSIS: An electronics research team discover a psychic imprint in the walls of a Victorian house they are using for their work. It is coming round to that time of years […]
Blu-ray Review – The Last Video Store (2023)
The Last Video Store, 2023. Directed by Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford. Starring Yaayaa Adams, Josh Lenner, Matthew Kennedy, Kevin Martin, and Leland Tilden. SYNOPSIS: A cursed video tape unleashes the characters from some of the movies stocked in the last video rental store still trading. The cursed video tape is hardly an original idea, […]
The Machinist at 20: The Story Behind the Unforgettable Twisty-Turny Paranoid Thriller
Hasitha Fernando on the story behind The Machinist as it turns 20… Any fan of Christian Bale’s body of work would be familiar with The Machinist and that’d be because of the infamous and extreme physical transformation the talented actor underwent for that specific role. But the movie is much more than a simple gimmick […]
