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The post-apocalyptic genre is older than you might think. It has its roots in the “Dark Ages” of European history, after the Western Roman Empire had fallen and left its former subjects wandering around the ruins of buildings they could…

"I'm a miracle man. Those lights are a miracle" So much has happened since the release of Signs 15 years ago, particularly in relation to its writer director M. Night Shyamalan. In that time, the man - behind such now classic films as The…

In the late 1970s George Miller was an A&E doctor in Australia. Inspired and horrified by road traffic accidents and the state of the world at large he went on to write and direct the cult classic Mad Max in 1979. Spurred on by its…

One hates to start a review on such a churlish note, but none the less I feel it’s necessary to do so. It’s very interesting that Mel Gibson’s return to the Hollywood fold comes at a time when anti-Semitism, what with Trump’s major-domo…

It’s Holy Fuck by name and by nature this week on a feature-length episode as NO ENCORE chats to Brian Borcherdt of the profanely-monikered Toronto electronica outfit mere moments before a very raucous indeed Dublin headliner. With Colm…

In this second article on Great Movie Fight Scenes I'll be looking at the slugfest finale to Richard Donner's buddy-cop spectacular, Lethal Weapon. In this sequence street-crazy cop on the edge Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) takes on the…