It’s difficult third film time for writer/director Neill Blomkamp, the release of his latest feature almost overshadowed by the near simultaneous announcement that he has been signed by
Perhaps one of the best known of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, certainly during his lifetime, The Raven was a poem first published in January 1845. The
Now in its 11th year, for the second year running the Glasgow Film Festival topped 40,000 admissions to its programme of 174 events including eleven world premieres in
Hild “Thorn” Bathu is the first woman in a generation to be accepted into training for the king’s raid, but as ever, pain, bad timing and misfortune plague
The best horror films are often not so much about what is onscreen as about what they tells us about ourselves, expressing fears of isolation, or abandonment, of
It was in 1960 that producer and director Roger Corman began his long cinematic affair with Edgar Allan Poe; there had been ups and downs, and there had
When an actor is associated with a single specific character which has transcended genre to become iconic, it is sometimes difficult to disassociate those memories when they are
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 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
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
