We’ve seen movies break the internet time and time again. From The Blair Witch Project to the recent Barbenheimer craze, it’s quite the sight when a film can take over pop culture. One of the best examples of that type of film is turning ten years old as the cult classic Sharknado celebrates a milestone […]
Enjoyably Preposterous Movies
Tom Jolliffe pays homage to films that are utterly ludicrous, but are enjoyable because of it… If you can enjoy one thing about cinema, then it’s probably the wealth of variety at our disposal. We can watch the sublime, the dramatic, powerful, hilarious, thrilling, or we can also watch something that compounds (and beats the […]
The B to Z of Movies: Mockbusters and the Digital Age Mavericks
In the final part of our look at the B to Z of movies, Tom Jolliffe explores the post millennium age, moving into digital film-making and the most open era for distribution… In the wake of Corman, Kaufman et al, the VHS era gave way to DVD. Physical media now finds itself on the way […]
Shark Attack: A Deep Dive Into Cinema’s Sinister Obsession
Sarah Myles has a close encounter with the shark movie genre… Movie trends ebb and flow, with thematically similar stories washing through our cinemas at regular intervals. War films, biopics, westerns, slasher movies, ghost stories – each has its season, and they return again and again in cyclical fashion. One trend that seems to be […]
Jump the shark with the trailer for The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time
Coinciding with its premiere tonight, Syfy has released a new trailer for the sixth and final instalment of Syfy’s hit sharksploitation series The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time which sees Fin travelling through time in order to save the world; check it out here… SEE ALSO: The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time gets a series of posters “Our […]
The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time gets a series of posters
With just three weeks to go until the premiere of The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time, a new poster has arrived online (via TVLine) for the sixth and final instalment of Syfy’s sharksploitation series, along with four character one-sheets featuring Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, and Vivica A. Fox; check them out here… “Our hero Fin (Ian […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Alaska on board for The Last Sharknado
The latest in a long string of cameos in the Sharknado franchise is set to be RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Alaska – one of the most popular drag queens in the history of the reality show. The latest Sharknado movie, set to mark the culmination of the franchise, is called The Last Sharknado: It’s About […]
Sharknado 6 titled The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time, teaser trailer released
A teaser trailer has arrived online for the sixth and final instalment of Syfy’s sharksploitation series along with a title reveal for the movie – The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time; check it out here… “Our hero Fin (Ian Ziering) has battled sharks all over the globe, but in this last installment, he will tackle the final […]
Syfy’s Sharknado series to end with Sharknado 6
Syfy scored a major success back in 2013 with its rather ridiculous sci-fi disaster comedy Sharknado, with the made-for-TV movie spawning a cult franchise which has so far extended to four sequels in Sharknado 2: The Second One, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Sharknado: The 4th Awakens and last year’s Sharknado 5: Global Swarming. We […]
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming hits DVD in the UK this April
Tribal Films has announced that the latest chapter in the cult comedy-horror-disaster franchise Sharknado 5: Global Swarming is set to hit DVD and Digital here in the UK this coming Monday, April 2nd. With much of North America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for the inevitable: a global sharknado. From London […]
