Love Letter

How do you write a love letter to a film that made up so much of your childhood, yet can never be seen in quite the same way again? So the loss of Robin Williams has tinged our childhood nostalgia with...

When I was about seven or eight years old, I found myself perusing my grandparents’ shelf of VHS tapes. In amongst the Tommy Cooper compilations and boxes of Turkish Delight one tape caught my eye. It was...

“Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It’s just not widely reported.” Is there a more quotable film in the history of comedy? You might argue Anchorman, maybe Airplane!, but you’d be...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe needs no explanation. There's little doubt that even just the letters M, C, and U arranged in that order are enough to get the message across. That's a hefty monopoly on the...

In Bruges is a 2008 black comedy, written and directed by playwright Martin McDonagh. His feature debut, it centres on Irish hitmen Ken and Ray (Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell respectively). After a bungled...

“We will meet again.” - And with these four words begins the unraveling of one of the best horror films of the last decade. In 2009 Sam Raimi returned to his wonderful, exciting and scintillating Evil...

Pop quiz, hot shot: is Speed the best action film of the nineties? Hint: the answer is not ‘Shoot the hostage.’ This is a film so high-concept that its title is able to sum up the plot in one word:...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLywiaM6PA The above is one of the most inspirational and motivational speeches ever recorded on film. It's from President Whitmore, speaking on the eve of humanity's final...