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Jan 2, 2016

Top 10 Films of 2015

It was another tough one this year. I’ve been to the cinema much less than in previous years, but I was still left with a list of about 25 films that I had to whittle down further to make this final top ten.

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Apr 5, 2015

Movie Soundtrack Highlights — Power Station: We Fight For Love

There are some films that you just can’t help but enjoy for their enduring silliness, their over the top action sequences, and their daft one liners. One such film is Commando, which has been reviewed here before and at…

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Mar 22, 2015

Movie Soundtrack Highlights — Stan Bush: The Touch

I could hardly do a series of blog posts about songs from the movies without referring to one of my all time favourite films from my childhood. I’ve posted about this film at reasonable length in the past, but I didn’t really go into much…

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Mar 19, 2015

Alien 5 — The Return of Ripley… and Hicks?

You are all no doubt aware of the recent news that Hicks and Ripley, played by Michael Biehn and Sigourney Weaver respectively, is making a return to the Alien franchise some 20 years after the last main entry, 1997’s Alien Resurrection. For the sake of…

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Feb 14, 2015

Movie Soundtrack Highlights — Blue Swede: Hooked On A Feeling

Welcome to the first in a weekly run of my favourite tracks from the movies. Each of these will cover one particular track that’s caught my eye that week. As should be obvious from this week’s edition, they’re not…

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Feb 1, 2015

Before Dawn and the Multitude of Ideas

Eight years ago I had an idea for a zombie film that was a little different from the usual apocalypse in that the focus was on a couple who were on holiday when the zombie apocalypse takes place. I was on holiday in France at the time, stopping in a Gite that…

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Dec 28, 2014

Top 10 Films of 2014

I honestly don’t remember it being this difficult last year to narrow down my personal top 10 favourite films, yet 2014 has proven to be an incredibly difficult process. There have been that many high quality releases that it has literally taken me weeks to narrow the list down to a top 25…

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Nov 30, 2014

2015 Film Trailers — Jurassic World, Star Wars Episode 7, Hardcore

This week saw the release of two teaser trailers for two big releases due in 2015. I’m not usually the type of person who falls into the trap of trailers (see previous blog posts on this subject), however in both of…

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Nov 16, 2014

Nostalgia Kicks 2 — My First Horror Films

I never used to be a fan of horror movies. In fact I was quite late to the party in that respect, as I didn’t start watching them until I was 18 and at university. As a child I was afraid of just about everything, even the briefest of glimpses of the 1970s…

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Nov 9, 2014

Why Dystopia Is A Great Setting For Storytelling

There’s a very good reason for dystopia being a more prolific genre in fiction than utopia, in fact there are many good reasons. Dystopia is darker by design, a shadowed reflection of what could easily be the subconscious desires of the…