Why I Love: The New York Ripper Matthew Hammond November 12, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love 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...
Why I Love: Fright Night Chris Faers October 9, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love 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...
Why I Love: Rocky IV Chris Faers September 2, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love 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…...
Why I Love: Duel Guest Writer August 14, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love A driver locks horns with a trucker in the Spielberg classic
Why I Love: Passenger 57 Simon Fitzjohn July 23, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love 1 Comment Simon professes his love for the Wesley Snipes air-bound actioner
Lake Mungo: A 21st Century Horror Landmark Simon Fitzjohn June 10, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love I don’t know about you, but one of the things that frustrates, nay upsets me the most about being a long-term, somewhat hardcore horror fan is that, over the years, you lose that ability to be...
Why I Love: Alien 3 Simon Fitzjohn May 6, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love 4 Comments We give thanks for the David Fincher sequel
Why I Love: Daredevil – The Director’s Cut Simon Fitzjohn April 23, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love Simon leaps to the defence of the Ben Affleck superhero flick
Why I Love: American Psycho Simon Fitzjohn April 14, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love Simon gives a double thumbs up to the murderous satire
Why I Love: Full Circle (1978) Simon Fitzjohn April 7, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love 3 Comments OK, here’s a slightly unusual question for you – when was the last time you actually cried during a horror movie? Now I don’t mean a chuckle at a so-bad-its-good flick, or tears of frustration at some...
Why I Love: Deathdream Simon Fitzjohn March 23, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love A Vietnam veteran returns home to wreak havoc
Why I Love: Theatre of Blood Simon Fitzjohn March 17, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love Vincent Price on top form in this camp horror classic
Why I Love: Casablanca Peter Smith March 9, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love A little more than 77 years have gone by since Casablanca’s Hollywood premiere in November 1942. The movie’s release was brought forward by three months as part of the propaganda movement in order to...
Why I Love: The Fan Simon Fitzjohn February 27, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love Simon swings for the fences as he pours praise on Tony Scott's baseball thriller
Why I Love: My Bloody Valentine Simon Fitzjohn January 16, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love Simon pays tribute to the Canadian horror classic
Why I Love: Licence To Kill Chris Faers January 7, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love Everyone has had that conversation – who is your favourite Bond? Most justifiably favour Sean Connery, some prefer Roger Moore and then there are those with a fondness for Pierce Brosnan or Daniel...
Why I Love: Resurrecting the Street Walker Simon Fitzjohn November 18, 2019 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love Occasionally, just occasionally, when trawling through the mountain of straight-to-DVD fodder that populates the modern-day rental scene, you stumble across something that jolts you out of your stride and...
Why I Love: Apocalypse Now David Watson August 13, 2019 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love I’m not gonna bother recapping the plot of Apocalypse Now. If you don’t already know Coppola’s masterpiece, well, you should. The US Army send a guy deep behind enemy lines to kill a rogue officer. But...
Why I Love: Mad Max 2 – The Road Warrior Simon Fitzjohn August 11, 2019 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love One of those oft-repeated questions set to stir up debate among film fans is trying to name a film sequel that tops its predecessor (in fact, if I remember correctly, Scream 2 devotes an entire scene to such...
Why I Love: Crank 2 Matthew Hammond July 18, 2019 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love Matthew shows some love for the Statham sequel
Why I Love: Wargames Simon Fitzjohn June 18, 2019 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love A computer geek brings the world to the brink of destruction