What if there was a magic ticket that transported you into your favourite movie? It is something I’ve been thinking about since watching Last Action Hero for the umpteenth time…

Rodney Twelftree takes a look back at the work of Ridley Scott highlighting the British director’s best films past and present.

After the successes of both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg reunites with friend and co-star Nick Frost for Area 51-inspired alien comedy Paul. Reviews have so far been mixed with Pegg deciding to write with Frost instead of usual collaborator Edgar Wright, who co-wrote and directed both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. However, with hot shot director Greg Mottola (Adventureland, SuperBad) behind the camera, it wouldn’t be remiss to suggest the film might be quite good. There’s certainly talent on show.

Just in time for Halloween, we conclude our look at the best horror movies of the late 1960s and 1970s. In Part 3 we run down the top 10 scary movies released between 1967 and 1979. We have witches, and we have demonic children, pagan cults and fanatically religious mothers. Also in the mix are a family of cannibals, a host of dispensable teenagers, an insane brother, a loving father, a computer named Mother, and a son hell bent on taking over the world. And we must not forget the terrifying alien, the shark off Amity Island, and that strange little woman who stalks Donald Suhterland in Don’t Look Now.

Aliens is one of my favourite films. It arrived at a time – during the middle 1980s – when science-fiction was a huge box office attraction. Lucas had kicked it all off with “Star Wars”, with Ridley Scott’s “Alien” and Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T.” continuing the trend. “Aliens” was the perfect follow-up to “Alien” – bigger, more expansive, and equally as scary, it also benefitted from a fast-moving action-movie aesthetic that wryly mocked the war credentials of America’s military in Vietnam. Here was a crowd-pleaser and blockbusting spectacle that had depth, character, and intelligence.

The following essay is an accompanying piece to the following Top 10 Films Lists that feature Ridley Scott’s Alien: Science-Fiction Horror, Scariest Movie Scenes, Gory Film scenes, and Films beginning with ‘A’. Please also read my review of the film HERE
A critical study closely examining Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) as a re-evaluation of feminist culture in cinema

Looking at feminist writer Laura Mulvey’s analysis of the classical Hollywood film it is interesting how Alien (Scott, 1979) defies her claims about scopophilia, in that the film both subverts her ideas about voyeuristic …

At first, compiling a list of favourite films that begin with the letter A appears to be a superfluous exercise – given some thought though it serves to highlight some classic movies, ones that deserve to be watched again and again!

10. Armageddon (Michael Bay)
Epic, loud and full of heroic bravado – would a Michael Bay movie be anything else? Harry Stamper’s (Bruce Willis) band of oil-riggers are the last hope to save Earth from total annihilation. Pure blockbuster entertainment that keeps the excitement at fever pitch once the mission reaches …

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Having been a horror movie fan since I can remember I’ve always felt great works of the genre didn’t have to resort to violence and gore to frighten or affect an audience. That said, there’s a place for all types of horror film and the ‘gore movie’ is one …