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My Favourite Christmas Film Die Hard (1988)   Oh, how I constantly hear this isn’t a Christmas film. John McTiernan’s masterpiece stands up there with the genuine action greats such as...

The ‘Future Classic’ Christmas Film Arthur Christmas (2011)   Sure, anything made by Aardman is going to stand a fair chance of greatness. As soon as you see their logo appear in the opening,...

Top 5 Versions of A Christmas Carol   The story of Scrooge, a cantankerous old man who sees the light and embraces Christmas after three spirits (the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To...

The ‘Offbeat’ Christmas Film Gremlins (1984)   As joyous a time of year it is, are you possibly on the fringes of yuletide burnout? Everything and everyone is full of the Christmas sap, so...

The ‘Take Your Pick’ Christmas Film Miracle on 34th Street (1994)   Any film fan worth their salt knows remakes are somewhat redundant and inferior, for the most part. Sure, there are many...

The ‘No-Brainer’ Christmas Film White Christmas (1954)   Considering the title alone, it’s of little surprise to see this yuletide musical make the cut. While Irving Berlin’s 1942 hit...

The ‘2003’ Christmas Films   You’re always good for at least one new Christmas film every year, but sadly most end up being nothing more than a cash-in the holiday before fading into...

The ‘One For All The Family’ Christmas Film Home Alone (1990)   If you summarise Home Alone in a nutshell, a young boy left to his own devices who lays a series of traps to protect his house...

The ‘Divisive’ Christmas Film Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)   Back in 1966, an animated television short of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas was released, becoming...

The ‘So Bad It’s Good’ Christmas Film Jingle All The Way (1996) Putting Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christmas comedy together seems like a match made hell. Lets face it; the Austrian Oak’s...

12 Days of Christmas As we count down to the big day, no doubt you’ll be looking to get into the yuletide spirit, and what better way to get you in the mood than to curling up with your loved ones and...

Following a successful run in New York, Seoul, Paris, Singapore, Beijing and Taipei (as well as a permanent spot in Las Vegas), the Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N has hit London and is based around the characters and...

Among his many other filmic talents, John Carpenter sure knew how to come up with iconic characters. Take Michael Myers for example, whose shadow still looms over the horror genre to this very day, or...

Ian looks back at Nic Roeg's classic

Another John Carpenter classic to receive the 4K restoration and re-release treatment, The Fog is one of those strange films that, despite having been watched (and admired) by all self-respecting genre fans,...

Simon pays tribute to a truly classic creation

OBEY “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum!” declares the heavily armed protagonist of John Carpenter’s They Live (re-released this week) just before he...

In 1968, George A. Romero established the modern zombie film with his raw and terrifying debut The Night of the Living Dead, one of the most well-regarded and influential horror movies of all time. He...

John Carpenter is considered to be a horror director, which is a fair comment in the main. But with films like Starman, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and Big Trouble in Little China also under his belt, he is...

John Carpenter's take on the Stephen King novel gets the thumbs up

By Jake Sapsford Following the releases of both Shaun of the Dead in 2004 and Hot Fuzz in 2007, my interest peaked as a teenager and I started to be heavily invested in the work of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost...