
The scariest films ever made, decade by decade
Matt Glasby takes a decade-by-decade look at cinema’s scariest.
06 Nov
Matt is a UK entertainment journalist whose credits include Total Film, Little White Lies, Digital Spy, GQ and Q.
Matt Glasby takes a decade-by-decade look at cinema’s scariest.
06 Nov
Upon release, this bona fide classic is supposed to have caused fainting, vomiting and even heart attacks.
28 Sep
“It’s like a sauna. Furnace. You could fry an egg on my stomach. Oooooohhhhh”
27 Jun
There’s a reason it’s up for an Oscar.
04 Feb
The problem – and it’s a biggie – is one of timing.
27 Aug
“Plunges us into a maelstrom of fame so monstrous only Michael Jackson could relate”.
24 Jul
Bad writing lets down a good-as-ever Colin Firth, writes Matt Glasby.
05 Mar
Matt Glasby on the access-all-areas documentary that attempts to get to the bottom of such a confounding man.
14 Feb
All expectation, no eruption.
01 Feb
Feels like an adaptation of an austere 1900s book that’s been lost to the ages.
30 Jan
The exuberant Scot speaks to us about JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE and her other massive projects.
11 Jan
What really stays with you is the extraordinary, often handheld, camerawork and Baker’s powerful sense of place.
21 Dec
Jude Law is no stranger to playing the role of Pompous Asshole (see Dom Hemingway or Contagion for good examples). In Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, however, he is straight-up evil as Vortigern. Flicks’ Matt Glasby joined Law around an English round table to find out more about being a villain, working […]
15 May
Guy Ritchie’s spent his career playing in the sandpit with quintessentially English characters of both his own design and, more recently, those of others (Sherlock Holmes, and yes, we’re going to half-count The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as it’s one big Bond riff). Hearing Ritchie was tackling a new King Arthur film was therefore hardly surprising, […]
10 May
Having received – excuse the pun – a bit of a panning elsewhere, Stephen Gaghan’s lively rise-and-fall drama arrives on these shores as soiled goods. Inspired by true events, it’s the tale of one (made-up) man’s obsessive search for gold. But the real story seems to be star Matthew McConaughey’s elusive search for another Oscar. […]
09 Feb
For an Oscar hopeful, writer/director Kenneth (You Can Count On Me, Margaret) Lonergan’s wry, wrenching drama begins in about as mundane a manner as can be. In a role earmarked for Matt Damon, who produces, Casey Affleck plays Lee Chandler, a glum Boston janitor for whom beer and bar fights provide life’s only fleeting pleasures. […]
23 Jan
One day Dennis Villeneuve will make a masterpiece. Incendies (2010) came close as dammit. Prisoners (2013) started strong but twisted when it should have stuck. Enemy (2013) was far too esoteric (read pretentious). And Sicario (2015) was superbly crafted but just shy of world-shaking. For its first 30 minutes this cerebral sci-fi, adapted by Eric […]
09 Nov
The so called “grey dollar” – not to be confused with the pink one – is something of a cinematic growth market, as the proliferation of Red and Best Exotic Marigold Hotel fare attests. Similarly talent-heavy but thrill-light is John Miller’s genial UK geri-com. Written by, of all people, TV DIY doyen Nick Knowles, it gives the brilliant Bernard […]
09 Oct
Rushed to the screen to capitalise on the success of Paula Hawkins’ 2015 source novel, The Girl On The Train appears to have been written on one, juddering to its destination faster than the speed of sense. Tormented by the picture-perfect lives she glimpses during her morning commute – including her ex-husband Justin Theroux and […]
05 Oct
When it comes to comedy, there’s no such thing as a graceful retirement. More than a decade after the (note perfect) conclusion of The Office on TV, the movie debut of Slough’s most excruciating middle manager is a mixed blessing. Attempting to launch his career as a rock star – a subject close to the heart of […]
29 Aug
The wish-fulfilment film is one of the trickier genres to grasp. Make the reality too tough and the wish won’t take flight; but make the fulfilment part too easy and it just looks like lies. Master of the bitter-sweet musical, having made the glorious Once and the surprisingly non-shit Begin Again, Irish writer/director John Carney […]
29 Jun
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