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INTERVIEW: Celebrated Comic-Book Writer Cullen Bunn Makes Adult Novel Debut with ‘Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World’
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Cult Cinema
As we navigate an era of rapid technological advancement, with artificial intelligence becoming ever more sophisticated and prominent in our daily lives, it’s understandable...
Box Office
Sony Pictures is revisiting the black suits and sunglasses of Men In Black nearly three decades after the first film hit theaters. The studio...
Box Office
To celebrate the imminent release of Mike P. Nelson’s (Wrong Turn, V/H/S/85) new take on the notorious holiday shocker Silent Night, Deadly Night, we...
Box Office
A24 has dropped the first official trailer for one of its latest acquisitions, The Undertone, the debut feature from director Ian Tuason, which teases...
Books
After the strong box office performance of The Housemaid, Lionsgate is preparing to bring Freida McFadden’s next thriller to the screen. The Housemaid’s Secret,...
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Music News
Short Film
Curfew is the Oscar Winning short film from the 85th Academy Awards. Written, directed and starring Shawn Christensen, it was a dead cert for...
Headlines
Recently we reviewed Todd E Freeman’s excellent short ‘M is for Marriage’ which was entered into Magnet Releasing’s 26th Director competition for a chance...
Short Film
There is only so much that an animation can do in a running time of four minutes. To be able to portray the anguish,...
Features
With tomorrow being the UK release of the highly anticipated film The Counsellor, we thought we would have a look at some of the...
Short Film
It is only a few months til Wes Anderson returns for The Grand Budapest Hotel. Luckily, for those who admire or love Wes Anderson’s...
Short Film
If I Had A Heart is a brilliant and engrossing movie about an abandoned man’s fight for life. Set in the bustling city of...
Features
On 21st of November 2013, Catching Fire, the long-awaited sequel to the 2012 box office hit The Hunger Games will be released in cinemas...
Features
Urban dance film Battle Of The Year opens in UK cinemas this Friday November the 15th. The film follows Dante (Laz Alonso) and Blake (Josh Holloway)...
Short Film
Originality is scarce these days: Hollywood lashes mountains of money in often vain attempts to create a picture which is novel. Presumably with a...
Features
Back to the Future is a timeless film which never fails to entertain. As teenagers we all wanted to be Marty McFly with the...
Features
Hot on the heels of popular horror television series such as American Horror Story, True Blood and the Walking Dead, Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk...
Features
Oscar season is fast approaching and the world of film braces itself for the most powerful films of the year. Amongst those films being...
Short Film
Little Favour is possibly one of the most hotly anticipated shorts this year, mainly due to the weight of the main star, Benedict Cumberbatch....
Cult Cinema
It has been 27 years since Critters, a cult horror science fiction film starring Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush and Scott...
Cult Cinema
It has been 35 years since the first Halloween came out. A fantastic slasher movie that birthed a villainous iconic psychopath, Halloween made us...
Features
Horror is perhaps one of the most popular movie genres amongst audiences for quite some time and fans of the genre will agree that...
Short Film
House Cocktail is an ideal short film in that it takes a simple concept – the story of two men battling to gain the...