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Insanity. A perfect descriptor of Tobe Hooper’s timeless classic, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Widely regarded as one of the greatest horror films of all time, the movie shocked and terrified audiences upon its initial release in 1974. The film’s success is even more impressive when considering it had an estimated budget of only $300,000 (about […]
On the night of February 25, 1964, Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay), Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke, and football super star Jim Brown had dinner together in a hotel in Miami. What they discussed together that night has been lost to time. But, within the span of a year, Cooke and Malcolm X […]
Make Up was released as a part of the BBC’s New Films From New Voices Season. Make Up was Claire Oakley’s directional debut and it was made as a part of the iFeatures scheme. Ruth (Molly Windsor) is a young woman who goes to a holiday park in Cornwall where her boyfriend, Tom (Joseph Quinn), is working. She […]
Promising Young Woman, the sensational film from writer/director Emerald Fennell, is not a story of a woman’s triumph over the callous, toxic men that surround her. So, if you are planning on watching this film to see its leading lady Cassie (the incredible Carey Mulligan, proving herself to be one of the best actresses in […]
Based on a novel by Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus was considered one of the greatest films by the directing duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was a film that earned the cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, an Academy Award, and was recently remade into a miniseries led by Gemma Arterton. Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) becomes the youngest sister […]
A few years ago, back when live theatre was a thing we could experience in person with other people around us, I heard about illusionist Derek DelGaudio’s smash hit show “In & Of Itself” and I was crushed that I wouldn’t be able to snag a ticket and head out to New York to catch […]
DC Comics has a great legacy of making Elseworld stories about their popular characters. One of the most famous was Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son which showed what would happen if Superman was brought up in the Soviet Union. In 1955 the Soviet Union announced to the world that they have Superman, changing the balance […]
Wolfwalkers is the latest critically acclaimed film from the Irish studio, Cartoon Saloon. It has ended up being released on Apple TV+ internationally and Apple has got themselves a gem of a film. Bill Goodfellowe (Sean Bean) is a hunter who is tasked by the Lord Protector of England (Simon McBurney) to hunt the wolves pestering […]
Highlander was a high concept modern fantasy film that has earned its cult classic status and beloved by many. Wikipedia and IMDB classify Highlander as a British film so it is worthy of a Britflix retrospective. Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) is an immortal man who has lived since the 16th Century. By 1985 he lives as an antique dealer […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the future of cinema.