The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have, during the long and varied history of their annual award ceremony, shown favour towards three
Month: March 2017
The Imitation Game (2014)
Good film can move you. Great film can move you to tears. Norwegian director Morten Tyldum’s biographical thriller The Imitation Game is unlikely to
The Mansion of Madness (1973)
Journalist Gaston LeBlanc (Arthur Hansel) has returned to France after many years living in America. Commissioned by his newspaper editor to report on the
Evil Things (2009)
In today’s economically stringent times there is no excuse for something as woefully inept as Evil Things, the debut from director Dominic Perez. Filmmakers
The Possession (2012)
Initially there seems much to praise in The Possession – director Ole Bornedal’s competent excursion into child-in-peril territory. On closer inspection however the film
FEATURE – William Desmond Taylor: A Hollywood Mystery
Legendary actress Bette Davis once summed the business of Hollywood up by saying “Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life.
FEATURE – VINCENT’S LONDON QUARTET
Vincent Price could well go down in the annals of film history as one of the industries most misunderstood actors. Though primarily remembered for his
FEATURE – HAMMER, THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN
It never ceases to amaze how short the public’s memory is – particularly in the world of entertainment and film. Take for instance the once
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
Let’s be clear, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, starring the voice talents of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney, was never going
FEATURE – A MATCH MADE IN HEIL: THE ZOMBIEFICATION OF HITLER’S THIRD REICH (Part 1)
The world of the horror movie is a funny old place. Even in cinema, an area of entertainment where virtually anything is permissible, the horror
Iron Sky (2012)
What if the Nazis had never been defeated, but instead had escaped in 1945 and set up a colony on the dark side of
Mother’s Day (2010)
Three brothers are on the run from the law, after their latest bank raid has gone disastrously wrong. With one of them seriously injured,
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