August sees the return of the Fantasia International Film Festival, arguably the world’s premier screening event for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other unusual genre cinema. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this year’s festival is offering its Canadian audiences unprecedented online … Continue reading Eight films to watch at Fantasia Film Festival 2021
Amazon’s US$8.45 billion dollar purchase of film studio MGM was announced this week, giving the tech company the rights to literally thousands of hours of archive content as well as a number of ongoing feature film franchises. It has led … Continue reading Amazon’s MGM purchase: the franchises
Poster art is one of the most important elements in marketing a movie, as it is often the first thing an audience will ever see about the film. It needs to be eye-catching, attractive, stimulating, and most importantly it must … Continue reading 10 great movie posters from 2020
Last week’s second season finale of Disney’s online serial The Mandalorian certainly grabbed the Internet’s attention, with an action-packed climax, more than one historical Star Wars cameo, and the surprise announcement of yet another short-run series due for release in 2021. It … Continue reading “This is the way” | Why it’s okay to like The Mandalorian, and why it’s still bad for Star Wars
This is it: my 25 favourite films of the past decade. #25: Get Out (2017, USA. d. Jordan Peele.) Jordan Peele made one hell of a directorial debut with Get Out, an effective and terrifying horror film with an awful lot … Continue reading The Favourites of the 2010s: #25-1
The last 10 years have seen an amazing number of great movies see release. I have been counting down across 350 favourites over the past few weeks, and with this penultimate instalment we reach my top 50. The exact rankings … Continue reading The Favourites of the 2010s: #50-26
There are three more instalments to go on this comprehensive list of my favourite feature films of the past 10 years. While the exact numbers and rankings are relatively arbitrary, the fact that these films are sitting in my top … Continue reading The Favourites of the 2010s: #75-51
With the 2010s now passed, it is time to review the decade’s best achievements. From here we enter my 100 favourite films of the past decade: this is a measure of how much I enjoy them, rather than a measure … Continue reading The Favourites of the 2010s: #100-76
The end of the 2010s is upon us, and I have been taking the opportunity to count down through my favourite films over the past 10 years. This is definitely a favourites list, and not a more pompous “best of” … Continue reading Favourites of the 2010s: #125-101
The end of 2019 marks the end of the decade, and as such I am taking an extensive look back at my favourite films of the past 10 years. In this instalment, we count down from #150 to #126. If … Continue reading Favourites of the 2010s: #150-126
