Is there any such thing as too much of a good thing? Yes. But that doesn’t stop most people and that’s fine enough. Everyone has some sort of compulsive behavior that makes them feel good, but may have adverse consequences in the future. However, when are normal things like over-spending or overeating considered being a […]
It can strongly be argued that the 1970s was the decade when Hollywood fully did-away with traditional movie-making conventions. Once-radical films of the 60s, such as Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde, Rosemary’s Baby and The Wild Bunch, paved the way for a new generation of writers, producers and directors to creatively flourish, no longer bound […]
Edgar Allan Poe notwithstanding, Howard Phillips Lovecraft is perhaps the most revered writer of fantasy and horror and a key influence on contemporary horror fiction writers like Stephen King, Clive Barker and Ramsey Campbell. Simultaneously epic in scale and claustrophobic in nature, Lovecraft’s tales are absolute classics of the genre, proving highly inspirational for later […]
Horror generally ages worse than other genres – while the emotional core of dramas like Casablanca and It’s A Wonderful Life will never flag because we as humans will always be able to empathize, society’s tastes in horror change and what is scary for one generation is not scary for the next. Each new generation […]
As August reaches its end, and September inches closer and closer, perhaps now is as good a time as any to reflect nostalgically on some particular images and memories that help make summer so memorable. Memories like family barbeques, sparklers on the Fourth of July, swimming in cool water on the hottest day of the […]
While the tourists often prefer Venice, Rome is where the real action is, at least as far as cinema is concerned. Rome is the home of Cinecittà, the studio that gave rise to the vast majority of Italian films that have lasted the test of time; and many Hollywood films have been shot there too. […]