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Love in the time of Coronavirus…MR speaks to Adam Mason about his lockdown-romance movie Songbird... Songbird, directed by Adam Mason and produced by Michael Bay, was the first film to go into production...

During the course of his career, superstar actor Keanu Reeves has made a surprising amount of sci-fi films (not just The Matrix!) - he’s transported data in his brain while fighting off yakuza gangsters,...

Fragments of Fear returns to the sixties to discuss Vittorio Sindoni’s French styled thriller and prototype giallo, Deadly Inheritance. Throughout the episode Rachael and Peter explore the placement of...

Shirley MacLaine stars in this subtle shocker

Sports movies often go much further than simply telling the story of the sport; they’re about how humans come together to triumph over adversity or metaphors for the little guy taking on the giants and...

Fragment of Fear’s latest episode focuses on Tonino Valerii’s sole entry in the giallo filone, My Dear Killer (1972). Deviating away from the Argento styled gialli of the time whilst retaining some of its...

THIS SPRING, courtesy of Shudder and Vertigo Releasing, two titans of 21st-century British horror return to the genre they carved their names in. CHRISTOPHER SMITH (Creep) delivers a haunted house mystery...

Simon defends the forgotten Johnny Depp slice of sci-fi

In the latest episode of Fragments of Fear, Peter and Rachael return to the eighties once again to dissect Bruno Gaburro’s 1989 giallo, Fashion Crimes. Perhaps most notable for its leading role from...

Okay, so I know as far as 'modern-day' Mia Farrow goes, acting very much seems to be in the rear-view mirror - in fact it has been more than six years since she appeared on screen, instead now devoting her...

In the latest episode of Fragments of Fear, Rachael and Peter take a moment to mark the tragic passing of Daria Nicolodi; discussing her legacy and contribution to Italian cult cinema before moving on to this...

Set at Christmas – and featuring a gun-toting Santa no less – Silent Partner is one of those films no doubt lumped into that favourite discussion among modern film types – is it a Christmas...

The serial killer. The modern city. Cinema. All three were born, as we know them, of the 20th century. Each share a history of fear, pandemic, distrust, fascination, media obsession and, ultimately, each has...

The words 'Edwige Fenech' are usually enough to get me interested in any film, so the great news is Rachael and Peter have elected to plump for one of her giallo treats (with my favourite Edwige haircut no...

It is with great sadness that we report the horror community lost a shining light earlier this week, with the news that filmmaker and Frightfest friend Johnny Kevorkian has passed away of a suspected heart...

Here at Movie Ramblings we love horror. Anything that may be described as gory, deranged, paranormal or all of the above – yes please, sign us up. That said, we’re pretty fed up of the...

So, it’s Halloween again (well, nearly). But you don’t just wanna watch Halloween again - or even give the latest Michael Myers outing a rewatch. The problem is horror is such an eco-friendly genre, the...

When I was a kid, my sister and I would have weekend sleepovers at my aunt and uncle’s every year on our Birthdays. Luckily, they were young, insanely cool and would spoil us rotten: get in all kinds of...

Whilst Mario Bava’s 1960s thrillers, The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) and Blood & Black Lace (1964), have become known as the defining giallo texts of the 1960s, the tropes and genre markers of the...

Fragments of Fear returns for another episode focussing on the genre’s golden period, examining Edoardo Mulargia & Gian Paolo Lomi’s Haitian set 1972 giallo Tropic of Cancer; an entry that eschews...

Wasn’t the 80s awesome? OK, not all of it, but there was the boom in gym-culture, power, excess, evolving technology, the end of the Cold War, MTV and everyone striving to be the best they can be…...