WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Now, I feel like a lot of people are going to disagree with me including Loki as a Marvel hero. Well, in my opinion – by Infinity War – he has become exactly that! He fights alongside his brother in Thor: Ragnarok and Infinity War actually opens with him …
Singer to Actor: Mos Def
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers This was an interesting one, as I have just found out that Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def, short for Most Definitely) was a child actor but this was mainly on TV. I’m going to be honest, I have listened to very little of his music so to …
Ornithophobia
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers It’s crazy to think that birds have never been too far when it comes to horror in both films and literature. Take The Birds for example directed by Alfred Hitchcock or The Raven written by Edgar Allen Poe. Even Stephen King used sparrows in Dark Half as a symbol …
Jean Grey AKA Sophie Turner
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I’m going to try not to be overly critical of Sophie Turner when it comes to her role as, let’s be accurate, the young Jean Grey but it was hard for me to look on her taking the role approvingly. Obviously I have grown up with Famke Janssen playing …
Lord Richard Attenborough (1923-2014)
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 29th August 1923 Died: 24th August 2014 (age 90) Lord Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-Upon-Thames was born plain old Richard Samuel Attenborough to Mary and Frederick Attenborough in Cambridge. His mother was a founder of the Marriage Guidance Council and his father was a scholar who was …
Music of the Night
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Listen to the children of the night, what beautiful music they make…or whatever Dracula once said. I don’t know if anyone would consider this as sub-genre of horror but you know what, I’m going to and it’s one that is strangely pleasing to know exists. That sub-genre, my friends, …
Footballers on Film
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers We all remember that 30 seconds of David Beckham in King Arthur right? Well, let’s just say that is the only thing I remember about the film. Unfortunately that didn’t seem to spark off much of a career in the film industry for him but he isn’t the first …
Who’s Behind the Mask?
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers The idea of the masked killer has been a staple of horror throughout the decades. Come on, three of what would be considered as cult horror films are centred around them – Friday 13th gave us Jason Voorhees in his hockey mask, Halloween had Michael Myers and then there’s …
Jeepers Creepers Quadrilogy
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers It’s a shame to say it, but of this set of films I’ve watched the 2nd more often than any of the others. I don’t know what it is but there’s just something about that film that makes it better than the rest! Anyway, there’s been long discussion about …
Poltergeist 1982 vs 2015
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I have a question, how can a remake be considered as part of an original cannon? Yes, I said it, the 2015 version of Poltergeist is referred to as both a remake of the 1982 film AND the fourth instalment in the Poltergeist franchise. Wouldn’t that make it a …