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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

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...

By Casey Evans Why subtlety is key for the Clown Prince of crime... In the entirety of Batman’s Rogues Gallery, the Joker has always stood out as the prime example of the perfect villain; an antithesis...

I've always viewed Clive Owen as something of a 'nearly man' - he has headlined numerous enjoyable films (the likes of King Arthur and Shoot 'Em Up spring to mind), often bringing a world-weariness to other...

A look back at Joe Dante's monster movie classic

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...

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...