There are few writers whose work has passed so unconsciously into common parlance that those who reference it do not know the origin. The phrase “the lunatics have
It’s interesting to think that one of the most influential and contentious cinematic spy thrillers of all time only came about due to the personal intervention of one
It was supposed to be a simple dinner party, four couples, a few bottles of wine, catching up with old friends, but the awkward conversation of bad career
Recently released on DVD and Blu-ray courtesy of 101 Films’ “Cult Movie Collection,” Toy Soldiers from 1991 takes us back to a time when teen characters had the
When is a Poe not a Poe? Released in 1963, The Haunted Palace was positioned by American International Pictures as the fifth in the series of successful adaptations
In a garish hotel room, Nicholas Eastman (Maleficent‘s Brenton Thwaites) receives a message from the individual who identifies himself as Nomad. Having already hacked into the systems of
It may have been John Carpenter’s Hallowe’en in 1978 which is generally regarded as the film which brought the slasher horror subgenre to prominence but it was far
There is an adage which states that those who cannot do teach. In modern filmmaking, the corrolary has become that those who cannot do make found footage films,
Like Lost in La Mancha to Terry Gilliam’s The Man who Killed Don Quixote (which ironically is in production again, fifteen years after original thwarted attempt), there are
Released in 2010, Gareth Edward’s Monsters was “the little film that could.” His debut feature film, funded for less than $500,000, it toured the festival circuit to great
