How many times have you watched the good guys defeat Freddy, Jason, Chuckie or Michael Myers only for them to come back to life in the final act? And how many times did Christopher Lee’s Dracula or Peter Cushing’s V...
Tyler Perry certainly knows his audience – generally female, black and the pink pound market – and he is riding high on it. Forget about Precious, last year he pulled in more that $400 million worldwide on his own b...
Roll up, roll up! See what Robert Pattinson does in between filming the latest instalment of Twilight! Water For Elephants is an incredibly familiar yarn that wouldn’t be out of place showing at Sunday matinée and its A-list ca...
By Shelley Marsden Younger cinema-goers won’t remember 1999’s East Is East, but for those who do, the sequel is something of a disappointment. The former was full of laughs (to this day, every time someone makes a c...
The Way Back follows six prisoners as they escape from a Siberian gulag in 1940, and make their way on an epic intercontinental trek to freedom in India. Director Peter Weir brings this true story to the screen with visual flai...
Eureka releases the deliciously satirical comedy, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, out for the first time, on Blu Ray A stab at the fake world of television advertising, the film was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin. What ...
When I was a teenager, outside of the illicit battered VHS copies of ropey porn movies passed around the playground, which were tame by today’s standards (no DV, no DA, definitely no 2 Girls, 1 Cup), our celluloid experie...
Drama and mayhem in this Mexican thriller that looks at a family of cannibals. Forget your Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) what if a family of cannibals suddenly found themselves without a leader? This is the premise of We Are W...
A subtle and personal voyage of discovery that is a perfect example of indie filmmaking. Wah Do Dem is a film that came about almost by chance. Co-Director Ben Chace won a trip on a cruise ship and decided to make a film in the...
The country. For a townie, is there anyplace scarier than the country? Bad things happen in the country. If the movies have taught us nothing else it’s that the country is a dangerous place. Haven’t you ever seen St...