There are two species of beastie horror: your robust, reality-tethered monster movie starring a hungry shark, rogue crocodile or big snake, and the more supernatural
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‘Pure sugar-rush mayhem’: why I Wanna Hold Your Hand is my feelgood movie
When it comes to feelgood movies, it might not surprise some that a pick would come courtesy of Robert Zemeckis. After all, he has delighted
The Hamlet Syndrome review – soldiers turn to Shakespeare as Ukrainians deal with the war
What is the use of art in time of war? Shot a few months prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Elwira Niewiera
‘An intuitive genius’: Gary Oldman steps back on to stage as a national treasure
It’s been 46 years since Gary Oldman made his professional stage debut at York’s Theatre Royal. Returning to the venue last week for Samuel Beckett’s
Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’
Swamp Dogg has only just stopped seeing monsters. Since being spiked with LSD back in the 1960s, which also influenced his distinct take on left-field
‘My moment of glory’: Nicolas Cage lookalikes assemble in London
On a sunny, bustling late afternoon outside a cinema in Soho, central London, more than 100 people have gathered, a number of whom sort of,
Has Marvel shot itself in the foot by bringing superfreak Sentry into Thunderbolts*?
Is there ever a right time to introduce into your superhero universe a psychologically unstable god-being with the potential to sneeze a continent off the
A Different Man’s Adam Pearson to star in new film of The Elephant Man
Adam Pearson, the actor who appeared in Under the Skin and the Oscar-nominated A Different Man, is to play the lead role in a new
The grisly return of Final Destination: ‘What are the everyday experiences we can ruin for people?’
‘My inbox is filled with the most horrible ways people can die,” says Craig Perry, the producer – or, as he would prefer, “curator” –
Rock’n’roles: Dwayne Johnson films – ranked!
20. Red One (2024) Dwayne Johnson is about to violently switch gears. His next films include a Benny Safdie drama about an MMA fighter battling