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Editor at Valnet and FILMHOUNDS.

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What's the Alternative? - The Guardian

What's the Alternative? - The Guardian

Independent cinemas used to be a premier hang-out for students. But with multiplexes pushing smaller venues o…

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Interview: Renny Harlin On The Strangers - "I was just waiting to get to the third movie"

Interview: Renny Harlin On The Strangers - "I was just waiting to get to the third movie"

The Strangers - Chapter 3 is more than just the final instalment of a trilogy-it's the end of a single psycho…

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Black Hawk Down: Two decades after the battle which inspired the movie, here's our top 10 war fil...

Black Hawk Down: Two decades after the battle which inspired the movie, here's our top 10 war fil...

To mark the 20th anniversary of the First Battle of Mogadishu, Matt Goddard looks at the film it inspired, Bl…

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Satire By A Hundred Papercuts – No Other Choice (Film Review)

Satire By A Hundred Papercuts – No Other Choice (Film Review)

No Other Choice starts with a family barbecue. Two parents, two children, two dogs, under falling blossoms. F…

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Interview: Miguel Torres Umba On Playing Ben In Primate — “A lot of the scares were genuine”

Interview: Miguel Torres Umba On Playing Ben In Primate — “A lot of the scares were genuine”

When it came to realising the simian threat at the heart of its horror, Primate went old-school. With an eye …

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The Best Video Game Commercials - We Got This Covered

The Best Video Game Commercials - We Got This Covered

For many gamers, it's in the commercial before it's in the game. Consoles and their headline franchises have …

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Director Neil Jordan Talks Interview With The Vampire 4K — “Anne said ‘Lestat wants you to make this movie’

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By Matt Goddard Verified
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Interview with the Vampire may have been released over 30 years ago, but its monumental coming together of huge cultural forces would have sent out the same shockwaves if it were announced yesterday: Two of the biggest movie stars on the planet, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, playing opposite each other in a high-budget, high-profile adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1976 debut novel, a high-concept “metaphor for lost souls.” Framed as an interview in the present, and recounting a couple of hundred years...
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The Monster Squad (4K Review) — Fun Despite Its Low Stakes

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By Matt Goddard Verified
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A fun addition to Arrow Video’s Halloween run-up, this cult classic from 1987 should have been so much more. A gang of kids versus the deathly gothic forces of evil under Dracula’s command is a strong concept. With script duties handed to Shane Black, fresh from his precocious debut writing Lethal Weapon, it should have screamed ‘winner’. But it wasn’t, for reasons painfully obvious in a box set that’s both a celebration and autopsy of the comedy horror.
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Forbidden Planet (4K Review) — Pioneering Sci-Fi

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It is hard to imagine the effect Forbidden Planet would have had on audiences in 1956. Arrow’s new release, built around a sparkling 4K restoration of the classic, comes close, thanks to a commentary from two familiar film historians, Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw, capturing the wonder of watching it as a kid and the undeniable fact that it still looks incredible. Seventy years on, Forbidden Planet bursts from the screen.
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