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​It’s been nearly ten years since the eclectic band of music store employees saved their beloved record shop from being taken over by the Music Town franchise in ‘90s cult classic, Empire Records. Sadly,...

http://vimeo.com/64114843 Rob McLellan’s 8 minute exploration of cold obsession under the chilling light of self-awareness finds new material for the affectionate sociopath, chillingly augmenting the...

Sergio Leone is undoubtedly a master of his craft; in fact, such is his genius that one could approach any of his major works and find a film whose sheer magnificence is scarcely penetrated by whatever amount...

1980s high school movies are a mixed bag, with the plethora of cult teen films ranging tonally from dick jokes to contemplations on mortality (sometimes even within the same film). Of course the high-school...

George Roy Hill’s 1973 classic The Sting is a film laced with cinematic heritage. Yet despite winning seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, the film has been eclipsed by another of Hill’s...

Consisting of three 20-minute animated shorts, animator Don Hertzfeldt’s 2012 masterpiece It’s Such a Beautiful Day packs more pathos and melancholy into its one-hour tale of a stick man than most films...

As is customary in dystopian cinema, it is hard to figure out what Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium (2002) is in favour of as opposed to what it condemns. Starring Christian Bale as John Preston (most likely no...

Taika Waititi's Boy is a cinematic gem for a number of reasons: it is well acted, brilliantly executed and aesthetically comprehensive, with well-balanced comedy and drama that has created one of the most...

Why is X-Men Origins: Wolverine considered the bastard child of the blockbusting X-Men? Although it is far from the best X-Men film available, there is nothing to suggest that Origins needs relegating from...

Plagued by the release date being postponed for a year, and the first film in the successful Jurassic Park franchise to not be helmed by the acclaimed Steven Spielberg, it’s little wonder that the most...

One of my favourite things to do as a kid was to look at my great-grandmother’s collection of photographs. Unlike most people of her generation she didn’t keep them in neatly-sorted photo albums, but...

The Secret of Kells is a 2009 Irish-French-Belgian animated film starring Brendan Gleeson, Evan McGuire and Christen Mooney, directed by first-time Irish director Tomm Moore, for which he received an Academy...

Who doesn't like movie trivia? As one of the founding pieces of this site, we're going back to our roots to enlighten you once more with some of the best trivia the world of cinema has to offer. Without...

We've teamed up with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Substance PR to bring you a rundown of the best gin joints, slums, bars, watering-holes and pubs in film to celebrate the release of The Drop. So slump on in...

There is an almost mythic timelessness that permeates Andrew Dominik’s 2007 will-be masterpiece The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Seven years on it is not hard to see how such a...