Phenomena gets a raw deal. It’s often held up as the first sign of Dario Argento losing his masterly touch, an overblown blend of greatest hits and daftness. However, while it shares several key plot elements with Suspiria and arguably never really squares its blend of creature feature, serial killer horror and fairytale, it’s a
Month: May 2017
Bags of Holding…in SPAAACE! When I first realized I had to deal with starship layouts in the hexarchate, I had two choices. I could either sit down (probably with my long-suffering husband) and make a loving diagram of a ship and its layout, and refer to it assiduously every time I had someone go from
The level of competition for the Best Animated Film at the Oscars this year was absolutely ferocious: Kubo And The Two Strings, Moana, and Zootopia each felt like they were more than deserving of the grand prize…which is why it’s just about forgivable that Michael Dudok De Wit’s beautiful fable The Red Turtle walked away
Some 75 years after her creation, after god knows how many Batman and Superman big screen adventures, Wonder Woman finally gets her solo silver screen debut. To say that the film has to carry the weight of expectation is somewhat of an understatement. This film is all expectation. We’re expecting to be stunned into silence
When Warner Bros announced that it was making The Lego Movie, the whole thing sounded a bit like a ploy to get people to pay to see a 100-minute-long advert for Lego. Upon the film’s release it was immediately clear that that wasn’t the case at all. The more cynical among us probably presumed The
I grew up reading The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift Jr, Nancy Drew, and The Hardy Boys. These mysteries were packaged by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and specifically targeted kids. Like many of my contemporaries, I liked reading these books because they were about kids like me solving fantastic mysteries. I fell in love with the characters,
To celebrate the release of Rings on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital on 29th May, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to a terrifying ghost hunting experience from Dusk Till Dawn Events at Drakelow Tunnels. When a radical college professor (Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory) finds the mysterious video rumored to kill viewers seven
Illustration by Grahame Baker-Smith from The Folio Society edition of The World of The Worlds by H.G. Wells The Folio Society’s edition of HG Wells’ classic The War Of The Worlds is available now and we have a couple of Grahame Baker-Smith’s incredible illustrations for you. Illustration by Grahame Baker-Smith from The Folio Society edition of The World of The Worlds by
Assassin’s Creed is out on Blu-ray and DVD today and we have an exclusive behind the scenes clip for you, as director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Macbeth) gets into the effects magic behind the sequences in the past as well as the Animus. “Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender)
Alien: Covenant is playing now in UK cinemas but when we talk to Ridley Scott about the latest chapter in the franchise he created, the film is about a month away from release. Segments have played at various conventions and festivals, the promotional machine had really ramped up, and he catches himself about to drop a
Alien: Covenant arrives in UK cinemas today, with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus follow-up promising to bring the terror back to the Alien franchise. It follows the crew of the Covenant, a colony ship searching for humanity’s new home which takes a chance on a seemingly perfect planet and pays a terrible price… While the crew is led
Patrick Rea’s indie horror movie Enclosure is finally coming the UK after playing at FrightFest last year and we have some very exciting prizes for you to win! “Adventurous married couple Dana (Fiona Dourif, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, When We Rise, Manhattan) and Charles (Kevin Ryan, Copper, Entourage) plan a trip into the wilderness
In The Belko Experiment, Tony Goldwyn plays Barry Norris, the man in charge of the Bogota office of the Belko corporation. His day gets a lot more complicated than he expected when the building is suddenly sealed and a voice comes over the intercom demanding that the men and women trapped inside start killing each
Unless you have been living in Outer Mongolia, no doubt you will have heard talk of a popular little animated movie called Frozen. Cleverly jumping on the bandwagon, Elly Blake has a ready-made audience for her new, YA series, Frostblood. Ramping up the raunch factor and adding some gladiator action, it is time for Frozen