What’s the scariest movie ever made? I’m sure everyone has their own opinion on this, and some of those opinions will make other people angry because they don’t match their particular opinions. So it goes! But can we ever officially determine what counts as the scariest movie ever made? I’d say no,
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Key names in the Portuguese film industry are today publicly protesting a piece of government legislation that would allow international streaming services to avoid making contributions to the Portuguese National Film Fund (ICA), despite the EU mandating the likes of Netflix and Amazon invest back into Euro nations. High profile
Read morePoor The Empty Man. A supernatural horror movie based on the Boom! Studios graphic novels, The Empty Man has been pushed back and buried in the Disney release schedule so many times that it’s been virtually forgotten. And even now, the 20th Century Studios release is getting dropped in theaters with little fanfare
Read moreThe turmoil of the theatrical exhibition industry has been well documented since the pandemic began, but considering all of the insanity that’s been going on in the country over the past couple of days, it’d be totally understandable a detail or two slipped through the cracks. That’s where we come
Read moreThere’s a cinema in south-east London called Peckhamplex, which is one of my favourite places in the world. Set on the bottom floor of a car park, it’s a kind of faded 1990s dreamworld. The colour scheme is lurid, the typography can only be described as “funky”. At first glance,
Read moreAh, the humble egg – fry it, poach it, boil it, scramble it, or for the protein-junkie, gulp it. Some methods are much easier than others. Poaching, for one, might be more faff than it’s worth. However, egg-lovers are not giving up and we have plenty of hacks to get
Read moreToronto/NYFF 2020: Boston mayor Marty Walsh becomes a constant figure in this examination of the good that government can potentially do with community involvement Facts are so often stranger than fiction: The truth can be so terrible that we struggle to believe it, or so joyous and full of life
Read moreEmma Seligman’s Shiva Baby is a caustic comedy about attending a traditional post-burial brunch, taking the tropes of Jewish family life in directions that feel much like a beautifully realized horror film as well as an eloquent and often hilarious look at a hapless millennial navigating parental and cultural expectation.
Read moreThe Creep will return in 2021. Creepshow season 2 has officially begun production, with plans for the series to return to Shudder in 2021. Greg Nicotero is back as showrunner, and the cast for season 2 so far includes Anna Camp, Keith David, Ashley Laurence, Josh McDermitt, and Adam Pally. The
Read more(Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything.) Kingdom, one of Netflix’s original South Korean dramas, couldn’t be streaming at a more apt time. The drama is, on the surface, a zombie show. It’s intriguing in how it puts the classic
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