Ari Folman, visionary director of Waltz With Bashir, brings us a journey beyond imagination in his upcoming movie The Congress. Robin Wright (pictured above) plays a version of herself in this thought-provoking film, which merges live-action and colourful animation. To celebrate the release of The Congress today (our review is here), we take a look at […]
To celebrate the release of Into the Storm, hitting UK cinemas on the 20th August, we have put together our favourite extreme weather films. The Perfect Storm This film reminds us that all extreme weather is 100 times worse when experienced at sea. The Perfect Storm is about the crew of the Andrea Gail, a […]
2014 has already seen some very good films released, with the likes of Boyhood, The Fault in Our Stars, X-Men: Days of Future Past and others doing great business and turning heads in the process. The remainder of 2014 will also see a large number of film releases, and some of those are highly intriguing. […]
It is no secret that the genre of horror is saturated, like a wet diaper, with films that should never really have been made, films that are so bad they’re, well, bad. I know that sometimes a film is made that is often a train-wreck yet manages to be entertaining, but surrounding those films exists […]
Cinema has a long and complex history with robot characters. From being bionic buddies to metal menaces, from silver servants to all-powerful automatons, robot characters have equally awed and terrified cinema-goers. To celebrate the release of Transformers: Age of Extinction here’s a look at some of the best robots committed to celluloid. 10) The Fix-Its […]
I have found myself watching more TV this year than ever before. There are many shows I still need to catch up on (Mad Men, Justified, Arrow to name a few), but there are decent amount of shows I am somewhat current with. It has been said we are in the Golden Age of TV […]
It is that time again as 2014 is already half over. Wow, time flies when you are watching movies. The year being half over brings my annual, “Top 10 Movies of the Year…So Far” list, and without question this is my strongest list by a long shot. One big reason is the increase of great […]
Robots have been a part of cinema since its creation and still make for intriguing on-screen presences. With RoboCop set for a Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbook, DVD and Blu-ray release on 9th June 2014 from Studiocanal, we count down the most memorable movie cyborgs to have graced our screens. Evil Maria – Metropolis (1927) Fritz […]
The road so far … It wasn’t exactly easy for genre television in 2005. Well, it’s really never been easy for genre television ever in the history of television, but in 2005, a deluge of genre shows premiered and almost all of them had fallen prey to the swift axe of the television gods by […]
It’s overstating the case to say that nerds have become cool in recent years – but they’ve certainly come to hold sway, with the likes of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, Tom Anderson and many others like them now ruling the world, or so it seems. And on any given day of the week, […]
Schools out for… well for a week for May Bank Holiday, and it’s nearly summer holiday, but in the UK we all know its going to be raining and the kids are going to be stuck indoors possibly screaming that they are bored and they want to play a game. Well have no fear, we […]
After about a month of taking in what the WWE Network has to offer I thought we could take a look at some of the things that are worth your time on there, and even just to pick up on DVD. Every PPV event from WWE(F), WCW and ECW is included on the on-demand section […]
To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of Rush this week, we’ve taken a look back at sports in the movies to bring you the Ten Best Sports Biopics… Brian’s Song (1971) A weepie isn’t something you always associate with a sports biopic, but Brian’s Song does such an extraordinary job in portraying two teammates […]
To celebrate the release of Rush later this month, we though we’d check out some of the most memorable movie rivalries in recent memory… Rocky vs. Apollo Creed – Rocky (1976) World heavyweight champion Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) comes up with the idea of allowing a local underdog a shot at his title when his opponent drops […]
With the release of The Dark Knight Rises and the completion of the Dark Knight Trilogy it had me thinking of where it falls when compared to other classic trilogies. Trilogies used to be reserved for a select few, but now everything has a trilogy. I mean Step Up had a trilogy…until they made another […]
Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli never ceases to amaze audiences with their illustrious and fantastical animations. The following top 10 takes a closer look at some of the studio’s greatest movies. Ponyo (2008) The award-winning Ponyo is based on an unusual friendship formed between the 5 year old son of a sailor and a beautiful goldfish […]
Well it’s that time of year again, end of year/best of list time! If you’ve been reading this site – or Blogomatic3000 – for a while now you’ll know my tastes are generally a little different from the more mainstream sites and so my Top 10’s are too! And whilst there have been plenty of […]
Female villains in the movies can usually be placed into two categories; the mentally deranged psychopath and the provocative seductress. This isn’t always the case of course, but it’s a fairly accurate basis to draw on. In honour of the nasty and glamorous sorceress Mizuki in 47 Ronin – the samurai epic out this December […]
With Dark Water and Ringu director Hideo Nakata’s The Complex making its UK debut at this years Edinburgh Film Festival (review here), we thought we’d take a look at the ten best scariest foreign language films. Read on… If you dare! The Orphanage (El orfanato) – 2007 The Orphanage centers on Laura who purchases her […]
If you’re a fan of action movies, particularly those that went direct to video in the 1990’s, you might know the name Maria Ford. A recurring co-star of Don “The Dragon” Wilson (she appeared alongside Wilson in four of his films, including Futurekick, Ring of Fire 1 & 2 and Night Hunter), Ford was also […]
To celebrate Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy winning both British Film of the Year and British Film Star in actor Gary Oldman at the Richard Attenborough Film Awards yesterday we thought we’d take a look at the Top 10 modern spy movies. 10. The Tailor of Panama John le Carré’s books are resurgent thanks to the […]
I’m a huge fan of 80’s teen movies and teen movies in general – yes I may not be the target demographic, but there’s something about the genre I love, and always will love. The advent of DVD means that there’s an abundance of teen movies now available to own, including some that should probably […]
