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Unhinged, Unpolished, Unforgettable: 10 Wild ’70s and ’80s Cult Horror B-Movies Time Refuses to Tame
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A24 has released the first official trailer for How to Make a Killing, the upcoming revenge thriller from Emily the Criminal director John Patton...
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X-Men director Bryan Singer is promising a shedload of treats for X-Men fans in his upcoming installment of the Marvel franchise X-MEN: DAYS OF...
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Dawn (Part One) follows in the footsteps of Looper, the 2012 blockbuster starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gorden-Levitt, and is a futuristic thriller which...
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To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of caper thriller Now You See Me this Monday, October 28th, we thought we’d take a look...
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An effective horror movie comes from learning that it isn’t just the excessive blood that makes people squirm. It is the atmosphere. Sure, galleons...
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One of the most cantankerous, obnoxious, rudest characters ever to grace the Jackass movie franchise has to be Johnny Knoxville‘s homegrown creation, Irving Zisman....
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To get things straight, we’re not talking about HRH‘s partiality for a certain British actor she would like to see take on the lead...
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Following screenings at this year’s Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals and, most recently, the BFI London Film Festival, the latest outing from veteran writer-director...
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The Boy With A Thorn In His Side is a powerful and intricate short film. Packed into just over four minutes of time, this...
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The Goonies managed to personify everything you wanted to be able to do as a child, but it wasn’t possible and even if it...
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Total Recall is still – to this day – one of the best sci-fi movies ever made. Why? Because it is based on a...
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If I had a choice, I would round up all musicals, especially mainstream musicals, and pop them in the guilty pleasures pot. I’d leave...
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It been over 35 years since A New Hope stunned audiences worldwide and cinema has changed a lot since then. Incidentally, so have the...
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Welcome to the very first of (hopefully) many short film showcases here on Cinema Chords, and we’re kick things of in humungous proportions, as...
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There are so many films we all dream will get the sequel treatment but then there are so many we just can’t for a...
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You don’t get ranked fifth on the American Films Institute’s ten greatest epic films for nothing, but is Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece simply an ‘epic’...