Category: Movies

Now that 2017 has come to a close, it is time to reflect on the best that the year in cinema had to offer. And it…

“Journalism is the first draft of history,” Phil Graham, newspaper publisher and part owner of the Washington Post, once said. I would add that films about journalism – whether fictional  or based on true events – would be the postscript to history, with license.

Having dissolved my initial advent calendar idea (for more than one reason), I felt I had to salvage some of the Christmas-kind-of-related movies you might…

As defined by the Oxford Dictionary, a documentary is a film “that provides a factual record or report.” What the dictionary does not say is that an effective documentarian takes those raw facts and arranges them in such a way as to clarify a point or to provide additional weight and understanding to the topic at hand. This makes the documentary nearly as subjective as a fictional work …

The Greek and I close out our series of 50 films for Halloween with a heavy dose of family values. Light relief? Not if you…

Yes, these are the horror hybrids that have you scratching your head if only you could locate it. From the sublime, the bonkers, to the…

I’m not here, as a man, to endorse the poor treatment of women, only to scan over how it does form a strong source of…

What do you mean there is nothing funny about a pregnant slasher? Or zombies in a classical literary setting? Or a kind of vampire The…

There’s nothing like a possession to disrupt a wedding, or indeed a congregation. Could be supernatural, could be a curse, likely unable to explain all…

This will not include the movie High Tension that was featured in last year’s Halloween 50, but delivers another 5 films in the same vein…

Multiple personalities. Behaving inappropriately. Getting into someone else’s bed. Wielding an axe. Watching people from afar. Murderous tendencies. Kidnapping girls. What a bunch of creeps….

To be spilled, to be spattered, to be in excess, to be shimmering even in black and white, to leave an impossible stain on your…

Okay let’s shovel some of the shit out of the way, with a selection of five horror movies we love to hate. Awful writing, terrible…

We’re getting closer to Halloween, and it’s a perfect time to indulge in a wealth of horror films that put you in a suitably spooky…