Time has the power to render all things oblivious. Some things decay into pop-cultural mythology faster than others, as is the case with movie-video-game tie-ins. While a great number of them deserve to stay in existential ambiguity, there are a couple of curious titles that deserve some attention. This is not to say that they’re [...]
I love being scared by movies. It thrills me to no end. But since I went through puberty, very few films genuinely freak me out. So it is cause for celebration when one does.
We’ve already had the Golden Globes, now it’s the British equivalent – The BAFTAS (and the second of the big three – the Oscars are next on Feb 26th). Originally founded in 1947, the ceremony’s winners are decided by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to reward the best work of any nationality [...]
Remakes tend to get a bad rap from the film community (as well as the syntactically inclined). It’s not as if we haven’t been gifted with some brilliant re-workings (Casino Royale, True Grit, Dawn of the Dead), but the current good:crap remake ratio stands at about 1:4. But how exactly do you make a bad [...]
I own quite a lot of DVDs. I went through a big buying phase when I was younger that I am since over (apart from the other day when I bought both seasons of Downton Abbey as well as the soundtrack because I was having a little mental breakdown.) My best movies get placed in [...]
With Valentine’s Day approaching, it seems appropriate to talk about love and film and how well they mesh together. Films are outlets that allow us to express the depths, the beauty and the idiosyncrasy of even the simplest human emotion. Love is an experience that hit’s the apex; a natural euphoria. Love also sucks balls. [...]
The scariness of a horror film is a very subjective affair, much like the hilarity of a comedy or the attractiveness of Daniel Craig’s face. However, the genre has seen an overall decline in quality over the years, preferring to opt out of genuine freakiness in favour of shallow torture-porn. Hardcore horror junkies now turn [...]
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