Category: Film

Where there is war, there is suffering. In the late eighties, Tehran lived under a shadow of fear which so permeated the fabric of society that to some

Melanie is special, the smartest and most polite of all the children in class, waiting to be called upon by the teacher she adores so she can impress

In January 1896, Auguste and Louis Lumière presented their fifty second long Train Pulling into a Station, and if urban legend is to be believed the monochrome illusion

Horror is the genre which is always looked down upon by the establishment, derided as being base, lowbrow, sensationalist and consciously unpleasant, yet as with the disguised social

Adam Nimoy had already been working in collaboration with his father on a documentary celebrating his life and his relationship with his most famous role, Spock, when his

Often the best science fiction is not actually about what it is about. To take the example of two of his best known novels, when John Wyndham wrote

There is much to be admired about Morgan. “She’s smart, smarter than any of us, but that’s not what makes her special,” says Doctor Kathy Grieff through the

If horror reflects the fears of the time it is made, then the three films which comprise The Purge are a terrible indictment of modern America, the first

In the concluding essay of his collection of sinister and macabre short stories Night Music: Nocturnes 2, John Connolly proposed that the brevity of that form was the

There is an inevitability about a disaster movie: the audience know it will happen, and frequently at least one of the characters knows it will happen, though most