Features

Sometimes in life it just clicks: the stars align, quirks of fate occur, everything comes together and out of it all you’re left with a film that simply works. Towards the beginning of the summer ‘88...

‘The Invasion’ is the fourth and most recent screen adaptation of Jack Finney’s 1954 novel ‘The Body Snatchers’ (retitled ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ for its 1956 cinema release, ostensibly...

Martin Scorsese’s 1995 movie Casino had “classic” written all over it from the moment it was announced. A director at the top of his game, Hollywood darlings Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone in lead roles...

Simon offers up his love for movies set in the Major (and Minor) Leagues

Jason’s mother was the killer, Bruce Willis was dead all along and aliens suffer from aquagenic pruritus, apparently. Most of us know the biggest twists of the horror movie world - but a few genius narrative...

If there’s one movie genre that’s pretty much guaranteed to keep cinema-goers on the edge of their seats as they follow their hero’s escapades, it’s the sporting genre – just think of all those...

Horror movies are a popular movie genre for many different reasons. Audiences find them rather thrilling and able to elicit a range of emotions. In order to do this, writers of horror movie screenplays...

Clint Eastwood became the name that he is largely through two roles: Harry Callaghan (the no-nonsense cop who made his debut in 1971’s Dirty Harry) and The Man with No Name (the lone gunfighter who first...

Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee investigate a series of mysterious deaths

“This is the Universe. Big, isn’t it?” a voice intones at the start of A Matter Of Life And Death as we drift through the Cosmos, through the Milky Way, our Solar System, past the Moon, down through our...

Matt Damon is one of the most iconic Hollywood A-listers currently working in the movie industry. He has some outstanding films to his name as an actor, producer, and writer and remains one of the most...

With superhero flicks now very much the behemoth when it comes to box office, rarely can a visit to the old multiplex pass without some reference to spandex, tights and superpowers. You may actually be...

Hitting select cinemas on August 25 before a TVOD release three days later (and a DVD outing in October), Bushwick certainly looks as though it will pack a punch. Perhaps that is not entirely surprising...

Available this week on download, with the DVD/Blu-Ray set to follow suit shortly, Ghost In The Shell sees Scarlett Johansson take on the iconic manga role, bringing it to the big (and now small) screen in a...

I can safely say I never know what I’m going to do next or for what reason.  Whether it be to suddenly choose to write three shorts and film them in one weekend (which reminds me – I must finish the other...

Regular readers of our site will know that we have been lucky enough to have followed the ever-expanding career of director Katie Bonham pretty much from day one. We may even have been the first outlet to...

Exploration has become something of an obsession for the human race. Unhappy with our own lot, we have often been known to scout the far reaches of the earth in search of something else, something different...

Anyone who has spent any time perusing our site knows that here at Movie Ramblings towers we are big fans of the new wave of talent forging their way through the British horror scene - the likes of Liam Regan,...

The British film scene has become synonymous with the rough-talkin’, underground gangster world that seems to thrive under our murky, grey skys. The gritty realism that is often absent in bigger budget...

Simon casts his eye over a vintage haunted house chiller

When first speaking to the editor about these Why I Love features, I was told the general idea was to not only to go into why you’re passionate about a particular film, and what makes it good, but to bring...