The Rolling Stones have broken so many records over their astonishing 50-plus year career; raised so many bars and left so many lesser bands eating their dust that there isn’t much left to say about them. One aspect of their tenancy as The Greatest Rock and Roll Band In The World™ that’s often overlooked though […]
Author: Cai Ross
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10 Horror Movies That Shamelessly Ripped Off ‘Jaws’
The Golden Turkey Awards by Harry and Michael Medved is a fabulous celebration of all that is great about Bad Cinema. Directors like Herschell Gordon Lewis and Ray Dennis Steckler were finally given their due, albeit not in the most flattering manner. Unmoved perhaps by the unique charms of Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs and The […]
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10 Great Food Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Food is the music of love, as a noted playwright once tried to say. The worship of food is an orgy for the senses and our adulation of gastronomy has only intensified over the years. Food has obsessed artists since the invention of paint – think of all those Roman murals with their ‘food equals […]
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10 Essential Films For An Introduction To Cinema du Look
French director Luc Besson’s Lucy was a massive international hit, financially and critically – though less so with the scientific community which sniffily took umbrage with the theory that 100% brain activity will turn you into a memory stick. As such it marked a return to form for Besson, who has spent the past decade or […]
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The 15 Best Classic Horror Films From Universal Studio
The uncanny and the macabre were themes that cinema embraced from the outset. The cinematograph, after all was invented during the time of the Victorian Gothic renaissance, the popular bloody excesses of The Grand Guignol Theatre Company and Jack The Ripper. Germany was home to the first masters of horror cinema. Robert Weine’s 1919 Das […]
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10 Essential David Lean Films You Need To Watch
There are film directors, there are great film directors and then there is Sir David Lean. More than any director, his career helped to define and propel cinema throughout the 20th Century. Like James Cameron today, David Lean showed the world with each new film what other filmmakers could only imagine – he took audiences […]