Eric Red hit Hollywood with a bang in the mid-eighties. His screenplays for The Hitcher and Near Dark were both highly acclaimed so it’s no surprise that his next opportunity should be to direct another of his scripts. This came in the form of Cohen and Tate, a tense thriller following...

Murder is, by definition, no laughing matter. So it’s disconcerting to hear the details of a particularly sanguinary killing, the roadside shooting of a Texas policeman, recalled and recounted by an array of jolly smiling faces. The Thin Blue Line was filmed in 1987 and revisits a...

That Mark Rosman worked prior to this picture with Brian De Palma should come as no surprise. The House on Sorority Row owes as much to that director’s work as it does to the Gialli that made such an impact on Italian cinema in the 70s and 80s. All the tropes are present: nubile young...

A common thread that weaves its way through most films dealing with the British Empire is the exciting, Boy’s Own spirit of martial bravado. Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Four Feathers and Gunga Din all embody this spirt in their own way. The flip side, portrayed far less frequently on...

This is super cute. 14 famous film breakdonws recreated using only stock footage from...

Removed from his home country and deposited in a dusty backwater a man might be expected to drift. Removed from his job, reduced in social standing and abandoned by his wife that same man might drift further still, perhaps into isolation, introversion and morose self pity. This is certainly...

Invented by Garrett Brown in the early 70s, the steadicam shot has become one of the most dynamic and exciting forms of cinematography. Here is a tremendous supercut put together by Refocused Media as an homage to the...

Lovely Tribute – no more words...

Christian Annyas over at the marvelous Movie Title Stills Collection put together this single slide of all of Stanley Kubrick’s logos. Nice to see them all in one place. My fave title must be A Clockwork Orange, though my favourite of his films is, I think Barry Lyndon. All Kubrick...

This is wonderful – a supercut of movies that break the 4th wall. H/T Leigh...