Right! Today is Halloween. That old tradition of dressing up and going trickle-treating as a kid or for the older folk, a good scary movie to sink your fangs into.
Well, I’m sorry to disappoint but you won’t find anything proper scary here! I make it no secret that I have absolutely no interest in Horror/Scary films, but when I do there often got humour built in them. So some will be comic-horror or light thriller films.
This post is dedicated to my Top 10 Alternative Halloween Films.
October 2011
“How’s your thirst for adventure, Captain?”
The Adventures of Tintin is a performance capture adventure film starring Jamie Bell (The Eagle), Andy Serkis (Burke & Hare), Simon Pegg (Run Fatboy Run), Nick Frost (Attack The Block) and Daniel Craig (Casino Royale). The film is directed…
A couple of weeks back I asked you for suggestions of things you should do rather than don’t do when going to the cinema - to go into a secondary Code of Conduct. You came back with loads of…
The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon “Slammin’” Salmon, now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night: the winner stands to gain $10,000, while the loser will endure a beating at the hands of the champ.
The Slammin’ Salmon is another film bought to you by Broken Lizard, who also gave us Beerfest and Super Troopers. Both hilarious comedies that I highly recommend.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Lynne Ramsay’s new film We Need To Talk About Kevin and how it fits into a sub-genre that really interests me - movies that explore a strange fear of children and…
Director Steven Soderbergh has got a new film out this week - a ‘real life’ thriller about a pandemic that sweeps through the population and the resulting panic. But this film and others like it…
Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979) is a film that was made in 1979 based on the 1973 rock opera album ‘Quadrophenia’ by The Who. The film consists of an array of then young actors and musicians like Phil Daniels as the leading man which the film is about. The film also stars Toyah…
Several people have suggested to me that the Cinema Code of Conduct is a bit negative and that what we need now is a complementary guide about what you can do to really enhance the film going…
Natural Selection is a comedy-drama film starring Rachael Harris (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Matt O’Leary (Mothers Day), John Diehl (Miami Vice) and John Gries (Napoleon Dynamite). The film is directed by Robbie Pickering.
A woman eager to grant what could be her husband’s last wish ends up…
The Man of Steel returns to the big screen with this continuation of the icon’s film legacy that picks up after the events of the first two Christopher Reeve films. Some time has passed since the events of Superman II and the world has gotten used to life without Superman (Brandon Routh)…
Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone is the first installment in a film series known as the Rebuild of Evangelion that reinterprets the story first told in the critically acclaimed anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Covering the material from the first six episodes of the series, this…
Lars von Trier has issued a statement saying that he will never speak in public again after it was revealed that he may face prosecution for the comments he made at a press conference in Cannes this year. Is his threat real and should he really be prosecuted for what he said?