EJ Moreno believes its time that M. Night Shyamalan receives the respect he deserves… Lady In The Water. The Happening. The Last Airbender. These are arguably the lowest points in the filmography of M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan helmed fifteen feature films in his career, and the entire perception of this filmmaker fell into such negativity […]
October Horrors 2021 – The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Sixth Sense, 1999. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Bruce Willis, Hayley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams and Donnie Wahlberg. SYNOPSIS: A child psychologist, seeking to redeem himself after failing a past patient, attempts to help a young boy who claims he can see the dead. It’s easy to poke fun at writer/director […]
September: The Movie Dumping Ground
Tom Jolliffe looks back through the years at the month of September in Hollywood’s release calendar… Pretty much since Star Wars changed the face of film and ushered in the notion of the blockbuster, the cinema calendar has increasingly been segmented into pockets. Studios bet big and look to secure the summer releases. They tended […]
Revisiting the Cinematic Landscape of 1999
Tom Jolliffe travels back in time 20 years to 1999 to look over the cinematic landscape… The millennium suddenly draws in. The century is in its final year. Cinema has a pre-occupation with apocalypse and disorder, chaos, among other things. It’s 1999. 20 years ago. That’s pretty frightening, but regardless, hold my hand, lets go […]
The Ten Most Successful Horror Movies Of All Time
EJ Moreno on the highest-grossing horror movies… In recent years, horror found a place at the box office. The genre finally started to bring in numbers that looked like its cinematic peers. For many years though, the only diehard fans would turn out for horror, rarely making it feel a cinematic event. Of course, there are […]
Looking Back at the 5 Most Iconic Horror Films of 1999
Twenty years on, E.J. Moreno looks at the five most iconic horror films of 1999… The horror genre twenty years ago is a much different beast than it is now. Not regarding quality, as there are good and bad films in any year, but the way the studios handle the genre and how viewers digest the […]
M. Night to Remember – The Best Shyamalan Movie Moments
Matt Rodgers on the best M. Night Shyamalan movie moments… With the culmination of his Eastrail 177 trilogy, Glass predicted to break box-office records when it opens later this month, there feels no better time than during this M. Night Shyamalan resurgence to take a look back at the one-time Philly wunderkind’s greatest cinematic moments. Let’s twist again…. […]
Bruce Willis: A Career
Looking back on the career of Bruce Willis… On 6th April, Bruce Willis will star in the new action-packed crime drama Death Wish directed by famed horror filmmaker Eli Roth. Following an attack on his wife and daughter, Paul Kersey (Willis) dedicates himself to seeking justice for his family and also avenges other innocent victims […]
Is a spoiler the end of the world?
Henry Bevan on spoilers… I lasted five days. Five days without having someone spoil the new episode of Game of Thrones. Those days were spent in constant fear. I was like one of the journalists in All The Presidents Men, constantly looking over my shoulder for the innocent bystander who might tell me what the […]
Are we still interested in Unbreakable 2?
Anghus Houvouras on whether there’s still interest in an Unbreakable sequel… In the year 2000 there might not have been a bigger M. Night Shyamalan fan than yours truly. The Sixth Sense was a sucker punch of a movie; I didn’t see the quality or the cultural zeitgeist coming. I remember buying a ticket with […]
