Minute44 - Dan Schonhaar

It’s been 30 years since audiences were introduced to a whole new kind of terror. From the moment the iconic trailer played to unsuspecting cinema-goers it was evident that Alien would forever change the face of both the horror and sci-fi genres. In those 30 years the franchise went from being improved by the genius of James Cameron in the sequel Aliens, to just ticking over in David Fincher‘s Alien3, to taking a bizarre, nonsensical dive in Jean-Pierre Jeunet‘s Alien: Resurrection and finally being wounded and subsequently pounded into the ground by the two Alien vs Predator movies. But it was announced earlier this year that the legendary director that birthed the legendary franchise would be returning to make the 5th (not counting the AVP movies) installment, a prequel. That’s right, Sir Ridley Scott is coming home. But is it too little, too late?

continue reading The Alien Prequel: Can it fix a broken franchise?

Get this! I asked some of my favourite designers/developers/creative types to give me one obscure/overlooked movie that they wanted to recommend to you, my lovely readers… and guess what, they ever so kindly replied! At first I just thought it would be cool to post their recommendations but when they started arriving in my inbox I realised that they reflected, in a unique way, the designers’ individual style and mentality. I really enjoyed reading them and have added each one to my to-watch list.

continue reading Movie Recommendations: Web Designer Takeover!

Directed by: Oren Peli
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat

“Reality” horror movie made on a shoestring using the actors’ real names and claiming to be footage recovered by police depicting a paranormal event. I finally checked out a movie that was originally released on the festival circuit back in 2007 and has just had a general release. So here we go, my review of The Blair Witch Pro…. erm, I mean Paranormal Activity.

continue reading Review: Paranormal Activity (TBC)

War is bad, mmkay. But there have been some truly outstanding movies based on real life wars. It’s a fine balancing act between shooting a really engaging and entertaining movie and staying true to the events so as not to upset any surviving veterans. With that, let’s get right into it with my five favourite war movies!

continue reading My top 5 War Movies

Why do I never learn? I should expect the Daily Fail Mail to poublish stuff that defies logic, common sense and, most of all, decency but I keep being shocked by it. Just the other day I found my ghast well and truly flabbered by Jan Moir’s well circulated gay-bashing and today they’ve done it again… this time though, it’s not the queers, it’s the darkies. Scary eh?

continue reading Any opportunity to call a foreigner a terrorist, eh?

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer

It’s a question as old as the genre itself; How would you survive the zombie apocolypse? This simple question forms the premise of Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland. Not concerned with the origins of the walking dead (although it does get mentioned), Zombieland is purely about the struggle of staying alive once the majority had turned zombie. Jesse Eisenberg plays Columbus (Because that’s where he’s headed. People don’t use their names, just the names of the places they’re going/have come from.) one of the few remaining actual people who scratch out a living by moving from place to place scavenging supplies and avoiding the hoards of zombies. Things go wrong… well right… but wrong, when he meets Tallahassee (Harrelson) and then Witchita (Stone) and her sister Little Rock (Breslin) and the group head out to the west coast… to visit a theme park.

continue reading Review: Zombieland (15)

So far the closest thing we’ve had to TV on iPhone is down-loadable episodes of our favourite shows or the venerable BBC iPlayer. Both of these are pretty good solutions but neither are actually television. Today I was pointed in the direction of TVCatchup for the iPhone by a tweet from Paul Stanton. I was expecting to see some half arsed excuse for TV streaming or some hacked pirate looking on demand service. What I got, however scored a 12 on my awesomeness scale of 1 to 10.

continue reading Holy shit, this is awesome!

As promised, I’m back with another handful of movies for you to check out. I hope you watched some if not all of last month’s suggestions and I hope you enjoyed them. So without further subterfuge or delay… here are my movie recommendations for November!

continue reading Movie Recommendations: October ’09 Part II

So I had this thought when reading the comments you left on my top 5 alien movies post. When a number of you said that you’d never watched my number 2 spot (Dark City) I thought I could easily post a hand full of recommendations each month for you lot to go and see. I figured it would not only make for some good content, but it would also get me watching more new movies. I’m not going to stick to a genre or any particular era. just movies that I like and I think you should check out. So, here’s my first selection.

continue reading Movie Recommendations: October ’09

I’ve often thought about why movies are so important to me. Why do I love the cinema more than most other people? To this day I couldn’t tell you with 100% certainty why this is the case but I can give you my best guess. It’s the town where I lived in Canada until I was 9. More specifically the local movie theatre, the Forest Kineto theatre. This little one-screen theatre holds some of my fondest childhood memories. I saw some of my all-time favourite movies there. The Back to the Future trilogy, E.T, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the list goes on and on. I went pretty often with my parents and my sister, mainly because it was 5 minutes away from home and because it was so cheap. To this day the ticket price is just $5 Canadian, about £2.

continue reading Bring back small movie theatres.