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Your favourite character writhes in pain, a scared look on his face. His arch nemesis stands over him, an energy blast building in his hand. Is this the end for our hero? How will he get out of this one? The screen cuts to black. Then those…

Netflix’s Black Mirror is back for its fifth season. This generation's The Twilight Zone, writer Charlie Brooker along with producer Annabel Jones have given audiences some of the most fascinating and original sci-fi to air on any platform.…

As our packed mid-year best of list proved, 2019 has given cinephiles a lot of movies to be excited about.  However, there's also been quite a few stinkers, ranging from the pretentious, to the muddled, to the just completely tone deaf. To…

Watching Phantasm 40 years after its release, one realises it’s sandwiched between two times. Parts feel very 70s American cinema, a period when it was more acceptable for a mainstream movie to emphasise atmosphere over plot. Blending sharp…

“The first feminist American director,”- B. Ruby Rich on Russ Meyer. From the late 1950s and up to the end of the 60s, a cinematic tradition arose in America. A genre built on the foundations of sexual innuendo, nudity and smut-laced comedy…

As we approach mid 2019, the year has already given viewers some big superhero spectaculars, worthy Oscar winners, brilliant indies and thought-provoking docs. To celebrate, we asked our film contributors to select their recent favourites.…

Ah, summer camp. Don’t we all remember our first day, when the camp councillors somehow knew our name and focused solely on us despite all the other kids arriving? And the group leaders who taught us “black man handshakes” before everyone…

While buses everywhere are now emblazoned with the three heads of King Ghidorah squaring off against the King of the Monsters, in the world of 1998, Godzilla and his monstrous friends were not particularly known quantities in the west. The…

Godzilla may be king of the monsters but this sequel to the 2014 American reboot of the legendary Japanese franchise is king of the monster movies. That does not mean the best. When I say 'king' I mean more in the context of a king-sized…

The Russian mafia killed his dog. He killed all of them. That was the simple, often joked about premise of the first John Wick. A slickly made 2014 thriller with a sense of humour and a brilliantly propulsive plot, it endeared itself to…