Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Sylvester Stallone’s first fling with Cannon Films… Riding high from a year of box office domination in 1985 having released career high grosses with Rocky IV and Rambo: First Blood Part II, Sylvester Stallone had the world at his feet. He could have picked anything he wanted to […]
When Movie Artwork Was Great
Tom Jolliffe looks at the peak of movie artwork (and subsequent decline)… Movie making is a long drawn out process. From those first scrawled notes that slowly evolve into script, to the preparation, production and post, so many elements combine to deliver a final product. Then you have the small matter of selling said film. […]
Films That DEMAND Multiple Viewings
It’s time to take a look at those layered films you might not get the first time, and therefore demand multiple viewings… Cinema is a beautiful thing and depending on your mood, there is every kind of film out there to give you what you need. Some films hit every mark on the first viewing […]
The Essential Modern Conspiracy Thriller Movies
Hasitha Fernando with ten essential conspiracy thrillers… Conspiracy thrillers are a sub-genre of film that kick-started with the likes of The Manchurian Candidate and The Ipcress File, eventually flourishing in the 70s with bonafide hits such as Three Days of the Condor, All the President’s Men, Marathon Man and Executive Action. The movies were primarily […]
The Craziest Takashi Miike Movies
EJ Moreno on the wildest work of Japanese director Takashi Miike… With over 112 directing credits to his name, the word prolific doesn’t even begin to describe Takashi Miike. His films range from extreme horror to family-friendly romps; there’s no shortage of entertainment here. For this list, we will focus on a collection of the […]
Eli Roth: Ranking the Films of the Horror Icon
EJ Moreno ranks Eli Roth’s movies… Thanksgiving marks Eli Roth’s return to horror after years of kids’ films, documentaries, and one of Bruce Willis’s last theatrical releases. With that, the filmmaker has around twenty years of filmmaking, and Roth has made a name for himself in the modern horror landscape. Love or hate him, Roth […]
Ten Essential Films of the 1960s
Following on from the 1940s and 1950s, it’s back to the swinging sixties as we look at ten essential films from the decade that you cannot miss… When you think back to key transitions in cinematic history there are a number of eras that saw an almost seismic shift in the kind of films being […]
The Essential Man vs Machine Sci-Fi B-Movies
Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of low-budget B-movie gems and the theme of the day is man vs. machine… What’s going to wipe out humanity? Good question, thanks for asking. It’s going to be one of a few possibilities including alien invasion, mother nature, human stupidity (we are a world where you can buy […]
The Most Disturbing Horror Movies of the 1980s
EJ Moreno on the most disturbing horror movies of the 1980s… The 1980s is the prime time for horror films, but oddly, the decade’s movies aren’t as shocking as the 70s or even the torture porn era of the 00s. Hunting for the most shocking and disturbing movies of the decade wasn’t hard, but it […]
Peeping Tom: A Voyeuristic Masterpiece of the Slasher Subgenre
William Stottor revisits the classic British horror-thriller Peeping Tom… Before 1960, the Michael Powell half of Powell and Pressburger had enjoyed a commercially and critically successful directing career. Films such as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and The Red Shoes (1948), which he directed with Emeric Pressburger, still rank amongst the greatest […]
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