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 The best (and only) character actor podcast in the world returns! For their first episode back Andrew and Stephen head north to talk the career of Michael Smiley. A Northern Irishman, Smiley got his start as the rave-obsessed bike courier…

A deadly virus has ravaged the world and mankind is struggling to develop a cure, forcing worldwide quarantine procedures and a newfound focus on hygiene and safety. For a split second, you probably thought I was simply referring to the…

It’s not easy making movies so therefore it must be twice as hard remaking them. Especially when a movie is an 80 year old certified classic and the 1941 Best Picture winner to boot. Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s 1938…

Halloween season is here, and to celebrate we're publishing a series of blood-curdling horror-themed articles to satisfy our Film buffs. In this piece, Andrew Carroll discusses Kill List's domestic disharmony. Horror is at its most…

High Rise, the fifth film by British director Ben Wheatley, was released this month on DVD. Like much of the auteur’s work, it is a strange, intoxicating cocktail of black comedy and violent horror. In celebration of the filmmaker, this…

When we look back at 20th century literature, there’s an interesting, recurring aspect that runs through the work of the authors lucky enough to have been afforded their own adjective. The novels of George Orwell (Orwellian), Franz Kafka…

Folk horror is one of the strangest and most persistent cult sub-genres of the 21st century.  Though a somewhat broad term which is often freely applied, the cult derives its primary impetus from a cycle of uncanny pastoral horror films…

Our round-up of film news includes a look at the all-important Oscar Nominations, a trailer for a new Werner Herzog documentary as well as a look at Ben Wheatley's highly-anticipated adaptation of JG Ballard's High Rise. It's The…

Our weekly look at the latest news and trailers from the world of film, featuring some abs, a few more abs and Channing Tatum's abs... it's The Showreel! Film News And the BAFTA goes to... With the Oscars less than two weeks away,…