Ahead of her eagerly awaited presence at Horror Channel FrightFest 2017, genre icon, actress & producer BARBARA CRAMPTON talks exclusively about her latest film Replace, battling chronic fatigue syndrome and her passion for supporting new talent. Q: REPLACE raises questions about beauty, body image and growing older, issues that many feel plague the Hollywood movie industry. What is your view on this subject? The best movies reflect our inner world,…
Read MoreFilm Review: A Ghost Story
Once in a while a film comes along which affects you in more ways than you could have ever imagined. Heralded by some as one the best movies to come out of Sundance this year, David Lowry’s A Ghost Story is an incredibly well executed exercise is subtly and an engenoius masterclass in clever filmmaking. Centring around ideas of loss, legacy and the need for human connection, the film is…
Read MoreFilm Review: Annabelle Creation
Reviewed By Linda Marric In what could be considered the best instalment yet of the ever growing conjuring universe, Annabelle: Creation arrives at UK cinemas this weekend, and it would be a surprise to no one to say that it isn’t terribly clever, nor does it win in the subtlety stakes. Having said that, it would however be disingenuous to pretend that the film doesn’t have its moments. With predictable…
Read MoreFilm Review: Maudie
Chartering the life of folk artist Maude Lewis and the romance which blossomed in later life between her and taciturn fish peddler Everett, Aisling Walsh’s Maudie is moving without ever being schmaltzy and gripping without having to resort to a superfluous narrative arc. Staring Sally Hawkins as the Nova Scotia artist known for her infantile drawings of cats, flowers and colourful landscapes, the film is not only likely to move…
Read MoreCompetition: Neither Heaven Nor Earth DVD
Win a DVD copy of Clément Cogitore’s critically acclaimed Afghanistan war movie which stars Jérémie Renier, Swann Arlaud and Marc Robert.
Read MoreFilm Review: The Big Sick
Directed by Michael Showalter (Wet Hot American Summer) and written by real life couple Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley, Portlandia), the highly anticipated The Big Sick finally makes its way to a cinema near you this week. Staring Nanjiani himself, the film centres around real life events in the life the Pakistani born comedian during his courtship with his now wife Emily (played in the film by…
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Frightfest: New Blood
Are you an aspiring writer? Then listen up! Or rather just read on. As an innovative addition to this year’s event which will take place across the August Bank Holiday, Frightfest have joined forces with MPI Media Group, Dark Sky Films and Screen International for an exciting initiative which aims to find and inspire genre screenwriters. New Blood aims to nurture projects from script to screen. Barbara Crampton, Dominic Brunt and…
Read MoreFilm Review: It Comes At Night
As intelligent horror movies go, It Comes At Night isn’t so much senseless blood and gore, but rather a film which will inject a sense of fear, paranoia and utter despair in its audience. Written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, the film manages to play on its audience’s deepest fears by using clever devices which will make even the most seasoned horror fans jumped out of their skin. Playing…
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