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How many Comedies are in your Top 10 movies list? Probably not many. Sure, there are your Shaun of the Dead's and your Holy Grails, but there's something about a Comedy that makes them a difficult sell over time: the laughs wane, the shocks…

"You've got to send a physical sensation through and not let them off the hook. I like to make it faster and faster and faster and pumping and banging until I get into you." The late horror director Tobe Hooper, discusses his understanding…

Like a cloud of noxious Smilex gas, the news spread this week that an origin film for The Joker was in the works. Directed by The Hangover's Todd Phillips and produced by Martin Scorsese (yes, that one), the film will look past Jared Leto…

'Didn't he do well?' Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE, television presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer, entertainer, screenwriter. Born 22nd February 1928, Edmonton, Middlesex, England - died 18th August 2017, Wentworth Estate,…

This week brought news of Daniel Craig's return as 007 for the as-yet-untitled 25th installment in the Bond franchise. Previously, in a display of unabated passion and enthusiasm for what is arguably the most iconic and sought after film…

There’s simply no denying that the 1990s was a great decade for action films. While the 80s gave us the essential films of action titans like Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis, the 90s was packed full of innovations in the genre; it was…

"Press: Quit making problems where they don't exist. In this month's Esquire my diatribe on films I might have turned down in the past in place of whatever artistic path I wanted to be on at that time I take full responsibility for and was…

Edward Scissorhands (1990) represents the beginning of the unparalleled string of collaborations between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. The quasi-adoption of a delicate youth with scissors instead of hands plays out in every direction, in…

"I was kicked out in the end because I was just too expensive. It was great fun while it lasted, the boys and girls were all absolutely splendid. I had a ball fooling around with old friends like Maggie Smith. Thanks to those films I get…

Aaaaw! Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you! It's been 30 years since The Lost Boys first graced our screens and it's as if they haven't aged a day! And when you get to the big 3-0, you might be a little too long in the tooth for…