The Oscars 2022: Nightmare Alley – For your consideration
Will Nightmare Alley win Best Picture at this year’s Oscars? The term neo-noir is bandied about loosely in cinematic circles these days. So much so, that it’s almost lost all meaning. So, when the visionary director and two-time Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro promised…
Top 5 Best Picture Winners at the Oscars
The Best Picture award has some stiff competition at the Oscars 2022. Join us as we take a look at the top five Best Picture winners.
Europa (2022) – Review
The lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on the shore. The image of the bloodied, startled five-year-old, Omran Daqneesh. Malian refugees fighting for their lives off the Spanish coast, having fled a capsized boat. Bikini-clad tourists helping African refugees as they stumbled onto…
Rob Zombie shares images from the set of The Munsters
Director Rob Zombie has recently taken to Instagram to share pictures from the set of his upcoming movie, The Munsters. The film is based on the beloved 1960s TV series of the same name, and principal photography is currently being undertaken in Budapest, Hungary. The…
Top Gun: Maverick set for Cannes Film Festival
Recently, it has seemed like Tom Cruise movies have been doomed to never actually hit movie theatres. As well as delays to Top Gun: Maverick, Christopher McQuarrie‘s Mission Impossible 7 and 8 have also been delayed until 2023 and 2024, respectively. Filming for both Mission…
The best A24 horror movies
What are the best A24 horror movies? Despite having a range of non-horror films to its name, production company A24 has become synonymous with the horror genre. Having been the brand behind some of the biggest, most bankable horror hits of recent years, you could…
Mike Flanagan wants to make a Star Wars horror movie
Could the Star Wars extended universe be about to dip its toes in the horror genre? Mike Flanagan, the creator and director of Netflix series Midnight Mass, would simply love to get his hands on one of the world’s most bankable cinematic brands and add…
Alessandro Nivola joins cast of Kraven the Hunter
Swapping zoot suits for Spidey suits, The Many Saints of Newark alumni Alessandro Nivola is the latest name to join the cast of J.C. Chandor’s Kraven The Hunter. Nivola, who starred as Dickie Moltisanti in The Sopranos prequel, joins the likes of Russell Crowe, Ariana…
Batman villains: Catwoman and The Riddler
Batman villains are just as important as the masked hero himself, and the Dark Knight has faced quite the array of adversaries in his rogues gallery throughout various Batman movies, comic books, and cartoons. Perhaps two of the most interesting and recognisable, are Catwoman, and…
REVIEW: La Mif (2022)
Films with a bunch of teenage girls at the heart of the storyline can end up riddled with cliches and stereotypes. Historically there are worries about boys, bitchy gossip sessions and popularity contests. The dialogue is usually written by someone far removed from the teenage…
REVIEW: Hellbender (2022)
Coming of age horror. It’s a unique genre blend that has brought us the likes of Carrie, It Follows, Let The Right One In, The VVitch and Raw. What perhaps makes these film even more unique is the fact that they are all female-centric. They…
REVIEW: Bite Me (2022)
Vampires have been a cinema staple since Nosferatu graced our screens back in 1922. As viewers, we revel in their decadence; their eroticism; their promise of immortality. Swaying between ultra violent (such as 30 Days of Night) and super sparkly (looking at you, Twilight), we’ve…
REVIEW: Last Looks (2022)
There are many examples in cinema history of actors playing heightened versions of themselves. John Malkovich did it in Being John Malkovich. Julia Roberts did it in Oceans 12. Keanu Reeves did it in Always Be My Maybe. It’s a sort of loving send up…