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Can Aaron Pierre Become The Next Big Action Star?

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After an impressive breakout turn in Rebel Ridge, could Aaron Pierre become cinema’s next big action hero? One of the most high-profile Netflix originals hit the streaming service earlier in September accompanied by excellent reviews and shot straight to the top of the streamer’s charts. There was a pretty firm consensus from critics and fans […]

6 Underrated Francis Ford Coppola Movies

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Casey Chong looks at six underrated Francis Ford Coppola movies… Francis Ford Coppola’s works as a director spanned six decades with his most prominent filmography coming from the ‘70s era. A string of hits and best works including the first two Godfather films, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now put Coppola on the map. But post-1970s […]

10 Crazy Cult Horror Movies You Have To See

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Go big or go home with these ten horror movies that dial the crazy up to the max… The horror genre is experiencing a boom right now with plenty of popular films destined to be cult favourites. You can have subtle, atmosphere-driven horror, folk, mind-bending cerebral horror and more. You can also have a horror […]

Ranking Alexandre Aja’s Movies From Worst to Best

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Casey Chong ranks the films of Alexandre Aja… French director Alexandre Aja has explored different genres throughout his illustrious 25-year career from the post-apocalyptic romance Furia in 1999 to the single-location sci-fi thriller Oxygen in 2021, but his most celebrated works remain his horror films, beginning with the ultra-nihilistic High Tension a.k.a. Haute Tension and […]

10 Modern Horror Classics You Have To See

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EJ Moreno with ten essential modern horror classics… Horror has hit a different level in recent years. While the genre has always been solid, we have mainstream audiences embrace horror just as much as the diehard fans. That’s led to quite a few genre entries becoming bonafide classics. We’ll look at ten of the most […]

Lifeforce: A Movie Only Cannon Films Could Have Made

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at a defining moment in Cannon Films canon…. What’s the craziest mo-fo of a film you’ve ever seen? There have been plenty of odd films. The beauty of cinema is in its variety. I’ve written about a slightly more critically acclaimed film Cannon made called Runaway Train. I suggested […]

The Kids Are Alright! Why Gen Z Cinephiles Are Cinema’s Last Hope

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Gen Z takes a lot of heat for the current apathy toward mainstream movies that divide audiences and fail at the box office. But it’s not their fault…  We’ve had some box office dynamite this year, with audiences flocking to see Deadpool’s latest outing and the Xenomorphs up to their old tricks again. Generally, though, […]

Nowhere Left to Hide: The Rise of Tech-Savvy Killers in Horror

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Amy Watkins on the rise of the tech-savvy killer in the horror genre… A demonic, murderous doll. A deranged maniac set on revenge in a small town. A silent masked killer lurking in the shadows. These are the faces that haunt us. The faces that forced us to lock our doors, check the backseats of […]

15 Movies To Watch On Tubi UK

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The UK now gets an opportunity to ride the Tubi rollercoaster and we give you 15 gems to watch from underrated, undiscovered and forgotten to the enjoyably bad… Without a huge deal of fanfare, Tubi opened its doors in the UK recently to try and capture the kind of audience pull it’s managed over in […]

The Essential Danny Elfman Film Scores

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With the release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice [read our review here], it’s time to look at the inimitable Danny Elfman’s essential work… Some composers are truly unique, leaving a body of work that listeners can immediately identify as theirs within a few bars. Whether you can spot a Williams, a Zimmer or a Goldsmith, these conjurers […]