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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
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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
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    Set at Christmas – and featuring a gun-toting Santa no less – Silent Partner is one of those films no doubt lumped...

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