Category: Film

The World’s End

The three major genres of blockbuster films are horror, crime and science fiction, and here with the third flavour of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s loosely
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Pacific Rim

Guillermo del Toro. With a prolific and varied resume as a director, writer and producer, he steps behind the helm as both writer and director in his most
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Citadel

Just a few decades ago, it was easy to scare an audience, but with the advent of home video, in the cosy security of our homes we felt
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The Conjuring

Previewed at the Filmhouse, home of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Conjuring was introduced via a video segment from director James Wan who described the venue as
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World War Z

The thing about zombie stories and movies is they’re not about the zombies, they’re about people, what they do in certain situations and what we would do as
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The East

The second feature from writer/director Zal Batmanglij, as premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is once again a collaboration with actor/writer/producer Brit Marling, but while Sound of
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Man of Steel

How to reinvent an icon, known for seventy five years, recognised the world over, unmistakable, and crucially one who has been omnipresent in popular culture for all that
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After Earth

A thousand years have passed since the Earth was abandoned, the population transported to Nova Prime, a stark and desolate world of apparently no discernable variation in weather,
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The Purge

The best science fiction and horror stories are those which are not actually about what they are about. Written and directed by James DeMonaco, The Purge is being
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