Years of toil, hardships and struggle can be condensed down into a short, sharp moment via a montage and the results on an audience can be immense. These are just a few of our favourites:

For the audience, a cameo appearance can point to anything from an actor's endorsement of a reboot, it can build bridges between films and franchises, or it can signal the ultimate in self-service and ego-inflation.

Plastic Space Rangers, demonic killer clowns or acid-bleeding Xenomorphs, there's no shortage of classic non-human film characters. The question is, are they more human than human? Simply sub-human? Or something else entirely?

In film, that final scene and those last few lines are what linger long after the lights come up. Those last lines have the power to cement or save what you've just seen; they can turn it all on it's head and invite a re-evaluation; they…

If you're anything like us, your New Year's resolutions have long-since lapsed, you're wondering if you'll ever see any daylight outside of work hours again and you're waiting for something to come along and give you the kind of hit that…

Welcome to Flickfeast's Films of the Year 2018. Shall we get on?

Favourite film scores: those sounds which pull us into the screen, the compositions which haunt our commutes and the musical moments which make movies so memorable.

From a director's debut to their latest offering, are we talking progress or are we on a downward spiral?

Okay, so there were plenty of other elements of disaster (the fact that Ishtar was filmed in the middle of ongoing conflict, its spiralling budget, the bickering cast and crew, the reviews) but the loss of May's singular comedic voice is…

So what can you expect? We've been busy hunting down classic Kubrick locations and seeing how they've fared, we examine Kubrick's ability to persuade conventional studios to distribute controversial films and we hire a complete idiot to try…