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Upcoming 2025 Movie Sequels To Add To Your Watchlist

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Here’s a selection of the biggest movie sequels of 2025 to add to your watchlist… Deciding what to watch weekly can be difficult, but a list like this can help you start planning ahead. We’ve assembled seven films to watch in 2025 and added a sequel spin to this list. Quite a few movies have […]

The Best Scenes in the Alien Franchise

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Casey Chong on the best scenes in the Alien franchise… The last time we got an Alien movie resulted in the so-so effort of Alien: Covenant. That was seven years ago, back in the day before Disney acquired Fox. The movie franchise found itself in hyper sleep ever since until Fede Alvarez of the Evil […]

Who is the Anchor Being of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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Who is the Anchor Being of the MCU Sacred Timeline? Here’s EJ Moreno with six possible candidates… Deadpool & Wolverine have broken records at the box office and are also breaking the minds of MCU fans worldwide. In a non-spoiler explanation, the recent Marvel Studios production introduced the concept of an “Anchor Being,” a key figure in a […]

Rooting For The Villain

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A good villain can make or break your film or series. A great one might just have an audience root for them… Any genre film or series that gets boiled down to good vs evil in its basest form, needs a good villain. Luke Skywalker needs Darth Vader and the Emperor. Sometimes you can just […]

The Best ‘So Bad It’s Good’ Horror Movies

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EJ Moreno looks at the best of the worst horror films… Mastering the perfect ‘bad movie’ is hard. Many believe that once a film is deemed trash, it’s instantly redeemable. This is the moment that will tell you otherwise; some bad movies are really good. We’ve compiled a collection of “So Bad It’s Good’ horror […]

The Gruesome Brilliance of 1980s Italian Horror Cinema

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Tom Jolliffe goes back to the 80s to look at a crazy, gore-filled period in Italian horror cinema… There’s a great legacy in Italian horror. Most famously, the giallo films which rose to prominence through the 60’s and 70’s (led first by Mario Bava, and taken to new heights via Dario Argento) put Italian horror […]

Ten Controversial Movies and the Drama Around Them

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EJ Moreno looks at ten controversial movies and the drama around them… What makes a movie controversial? Is it the buzz around the film, or what actually happens during its runtime? For this list, I’ll look at some of the most infamous movies ever and figure out what was the root of the conversations. Don’t […]

7 Underappreciated Final Girls in Horror

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EJ Moreno looks at horror’s underrated final girls… A Final Girl is defined as the “last girl(s) or woman alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story.” But horror fans know that she’s much more than that. From kicking ass to inspiring a younger generation, we’ve seen some iconic final […]

Is Remaking Sergio Leone Sacrilegious?

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A Fistful of Dollars remake has been announced and might be the most egregious modern reboot so far. Should Sergio Leone’s masterworks be untouchable? The remake and reboot fascination continues with announcements fired out almost daily to tell us some iconic film is being unnecessarily spruced up for the modern audience, who have all but […]

The Most Shocking Movies of the 1970s

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EJ Moreno with seven disturbing movies of the 1970s… The 1970s is often regarded as a massive turning point in American culture. It’s seen as a tumultuous time for women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays, and lesbians; all are fighting for equal rights. This cultural fight is set with the protest against the ongoing war […]