The Monsterverse and its Lack of Compelling Human Characters
WARNING: This contains spoilers to the Monsterverse films: Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). There’s a clever ode to Planet of the Apes in Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong, the fourth film in Legendary’s…
First Look At PosterSpy’s New Book ‘The Art Of Movie Posters’
We’re excited to give you a first look at PosterSpy’s new book The Art of Movie Posters which will be available to pre-order on PosterSpy’s store from 6pm on 19 April and will be released on 31 July. The book will feature the work of…
Amazon Release First Trailer For Barry Jenkins’ ‘The Underground Railroad’ Limited Series
From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad chronicles Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no…
ROAD TO OSCARS: The Live Action Shorts (2021)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, four of the five live action short films nominated at the 2021 Oscars revolve around policing or the prison system. After a year of protests for racial justice around the world, these short films seek to further examine the relationship between civilians and…
Latest Reviews
TV REVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 5 (2021)
[Spoilers Abound!] After the shocking and much discussed conclusion of last week’s episode with the new Captain America John Walker brutally murdering one of the Flag Smashers in revenge for Lemar’s death, this episode carries on in the immediate aftermath with Walker struggling to process…
REVIEW: The Banishing (2021)
Borley Rectory is a name that lives in infamy in the UK and has birthed countless books and films, after being given the moniker of The Most Haunted House in England by ‘psychic researcher’ Harry Price. Price becomes the character Harry Reed (Sean Harris) in…
REVIEW: Jakob’s Wife (2021)
The potential horrors of married life are on full display before first blood is even drawn in Travis Stevens’ ever so slightly fresh bite at the vampire genre, Jakob’s Wife. Familiar faces of scare-fests, Barbara Crampton and Bob Portal play Anne and pastor Jakob Fedder;…
REVIEW: The Eight Hundred (2021)
The Second Sino-Japanese War and how it evolved into the Pacific’s involvement in WWII has largely, criminally been left out of the history curriculum in the UK. Beyond Pearl Harbour, you would be forgiven for lacking awareness of the Chinese and Japanese conflict that inflicted…
REVIEW: Goodbye, Butterfly (2021)
How far is too far when a child has been lost? In the wake of his young daughter’s abduction and brutal murder, a grieving father becomes fixated with an oddball neighbour who he believes committed the crime in Tyler Wayne’s schlocky thriller Goodbye, Butterfly. The…
REVIEW: Cowboys (BFI Flare 2021)
When it comes to trans visibility, mainstream entertainment narratives have a tendency to lean towards showcasing adults’ stories. This then leaves a gaping hole when it comes to stories of young people navigating their gender identity, unfortunately unconsciously feeding into this belief that children are…
Latest Features
Low-Key but Legit: The Wondrous Women of Bong Joon-ho
For Asian women of the past, present and future. *Contains spoilers for some of Bong Joon-ho’s films. “Stop!” shouts Officer Kwon Kwi-ok (Ko Seo-hie) with all her might to get her male colleagues to focus on the radio playing Sad Letter, a song the killer…
Why the Academy should Acknowledge more non-English Language Performances
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences was initially set-up by Louis B. Mayer in 1927 to resolve a labour dispute. Wary of his studio workers unionising, Mayer decided to placate his employees by holding an awards ceremony that would instead offer prestige, clout…
George A. Romero: Horror Pioneer And Father Of The Undead
[This piece was written for and featured in Issue #1 of our digital magazine] Night of the Living Dead is widely considered to be one of the first zombie films and its influences and style can be seen in hundreds of films since. Household names…
Horror Preview 2021
After Covid wreaked havoc with 2020’s cinematic schedule – not to mention sending the UK into several national lockdowns – the industry was left reeling with scores of films either bumped to VOD or delayed for post-pandemic distribution. But as things (slowly) start to look…
Oscars 2021 – Will Parasite’s Win Change This Year’s Show?
While it may feel like a lifetime ago, only one year has passed since the winners of the 92nd Academy Awards were announced and Parasite ended up taking home the Best Picture award. 2020 was a very strange year for film releases, and the race…
Lockdown Cinema: ‘Rear Window’, ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and ‘Mustang’
Revisiting Rear Window (1954), The Virgin Suicides (1999), and Mustang (2015) Long before COVID-19 had even entered public consciousness, three films presciently depicted a specific story element that came to characterise the current climate for many: becoming housebound. Due to current restrictions, most people have…