Cinophile: LAST MAN STANDING
[column size=one_half position=first ] From samurai to cowboys to prohibition gangsters – the double-cross never gets old. Last Updated: September 21, 2015
[column size=one_half position=first ] From samurai to cowboys to prohibition gangsters – the double-cross never gets old. Last Updated: September 21, 2015
[column size=one_half position=first ] Growing old is tough… unless you are Bruce Campbell. The legendary actor has always had an interesting career: from cult icon to scraping the bottoms of B-movie barrels to lately enjoying quite a stellar time on television. During that span Campbell has appeared in some truly dodgy productions and to call out his worst film is …
[column size=one_half position=first ] Let’s talk the worst movie you have ever seen, as in the best worst. Not some dreary drama or utterly jokeless comedy. No, those films that stand alone for their exceptional brand of ridiculous awfulawesomeness. Last Updated: September 7, 2015
[column size=one_half position=first ] The post-apocalypse comes in many forms. You get the dystopian future stuff (Akira, Equilibrium, 1984), the Machine Dawn (Terminator, The Matrix), Extinction (Planet of the Apes), Disease (28 Days Later) and Invasion (Oblivion). But the image it conjures today is inevitably batsh** biker hell-hole, where we are all shanking each other for the last bottle …
[column size=one_half position=first ] It took a while for this column to reach a movie by the Coen brothers. It’s partly because they have such a wide range of work to choose from – nearly all Coen brothers films gain a cult following. Movies such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo have some die-hard followers. Last Updated: July 13, 2015
Kids was the kind of movie that rarely comes along. It went for a taboo topic (the seedy lives of teenagers) and refused to pander to conventions and clichés. A warts-and-all exploration of the time, it struck a chord and remains a controversial experience even today, 20 years later. Last Updated: July 1, 2015
[column size=one_half position=first ] Is The Evil Dead the original ‘cabin in the woods’ movie? That is a matter of debate. You could make that argument for earlier works like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Friday the 13th, though neither centred their horror around a particular structure. But even if it didn’t invent isolated, dilapidated cabins that contain unspeakable evil, …
[column size=one_half position=first ] A love-struck couple on the run from the law is not a new theme. The historical benchmark were the robber-murderers Bonny and Clyde, a pair who have been celebrated and scrutinised by movies ever since. Their wild story also inspired other copycats, notable the killing spree by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate in late 1950s …
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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