Horns

How would you react if people were totally frank with you? It seems like a problem with a fairly obvious answer, but think about it for a moment. No filter. None whatsoever. Also it would have no end...

The Curse

The greatest compliment you can give a short film is that it left you wanting more. Short films look to take the essence of a single idea and progress this to a conclusion in a limited running time. ...

Willow Creek

The found footage format has been done to death,  resurrected and bludgeoned some more. It doesn’t matter if you’re sick of the genre, the films are generally cheap to produce and more often th...

Life After Beth

Low budget film making where film making risks is now being taken. Movies with huge budgets tend to have too much to lose if they try to do something different and fail. We are talking hundreds of mi...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

The tale of the man and the monster has been told countless times in cinema either directly or by taking the main elements of the story and tailoring them as required. In 1995, Kenneth Branagh was at...

Cloverfield

Today’s cinema is littered with found footage movies. It seems that almost every month a new example of the genre hits the screen. It has become so prevalent that audiences (and me) are startin...

Dracula Untold teaser clip

Ahead if its release in cinemas next month a forty-second clip of Dracula Untold has been released to help promote the opening weekend. The film is a re-imagining of the origin story of The Count and...

Constantine preview unveiled at Comic-Con

For many the abiding image when you mention the name Constantine is the poorly received (but still pretty good IMHO) movie starring Keanu Reeves. It was going to take something special when the a tel...

Dracula Untold

If it worked for Frankenstein then why not Dracula? Off the back of the recent Aaron Eckhart monster action movie I, Frankenstein we are presented with the first trailer for the forthcoming battling ...

La Cabina

There are certain films that make an enormous impression on you. Most film makers, actors and technicians can remember the point where a single film marked the change in them as they realised that th...