Blog: 5 Luckiest Saves
Our hero is cornered. There’s no way out. All hope is lost. Surely he has a plan? Well, usually he does, but sometimes screenwriters get their characters into such difficult […]
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Blog: The Oscar Grouch
As the statuettes line up like a golden terracotta army preparing to wage war on the soul of cinema it can only mean on thing: the Academy Awards; the annual […]
Blog: 5 Best Sci Fi Sex Scenes
If there’s anything sexier than science fiction I’ve yet to come across it. No pun intended. It’s unsurprising, then, that the genre has given us some amazing sex scenes. Here’s […]
Badly Timed Biopics
By strange coincidence, Nelson Mandela’s death was announced during the London premiere of upcoming biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Is this just a case of bad – or possibly good – […]
Spike Lee
And so we conclude our foray into the world of all things Lee. Over the course of the past few weeks I’ve been lucky enough to watch a lot of great […]
Suffergettes
Yesterday there was an interesting article on the Independent website, which is surprising enough in itself these days. It was a piece by Harriet Williamson about misogyny in horror films, which […]
Journo-lists
Using the fact that The Fifth Estate is still in cinemas as a flimsy pretext, here are some top 5 lists of journalists in film and television. Even though Julian […]
Blog: The Gravity of the Situation
Gravity has fascinated the human mind since an apple first landed on Newton’s bewigged head. But with an absence of gravity being one of space’s biggest selling points, surprisingly few science fiction […]
Blog: 5 Reasons Why Iron Man 3 Sucked
I recently re-watched Iron Man 3 in the hope of discovering its hidden brilliance that everyone seemed to see but me. I didn’t succeed in that, but what I did do is […]
ExpendaBelle Watch: 10 Actors We’d Love to See
With the buzz around Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables films it’s unsurprising studio bosses have been eyeing up a female answer to the sausage-heavy meat fest. I’m imagining something like Michael Bay does Sex […]
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