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Movies 08.12.2011

The James Clayton Column: The Thing is just the thing for the festive season

James Clayton

Looking for an alternative Christmas movie? James explains why John Carpenter’s The Thing is the perfect festive flick…

Movies 28.11.2011

In defence of The Thing prequel

Ryan Lambie

Some have argued that The Thing, the prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic, should never have been made. Here’s Ryan’s defence of a decent sci-fi chiller…

Movies 28.11.2011

Our enduring fascination with The Thing

Terence Bowman

The recurrent “trust no one” theme of The Thing plays particularly chillingly in 2011.

With a third version of The Thing out in cinemas on Friday, Terence examines why a story originally written in 1938 is so enduringly popular…

Movies 24.10.2011

Music in the movies: the finest horror scores

Glen Chapman

Halloween’s almost upon us, and to mark the occasion, Glen’s delved into the archives to find his favourite horror movie scores…

Movies 14.10.2011

HP Lovecraft and his lasting impact on cinema

Ryan Lambie

The themes and ideas in Lovecraft’s work appear to have permeated popular culture in much the same way that fear and madness crept into the characters in his stories.

With The Thing and Prometheus on the way, Ryan looks at the lasting influence of writer HP Lovecraft on modern cinema…

Movies 14.10.2011

The Thing review

Ron Hogan

The Thing takes us back to the Antarctic for a prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 classic. Ron finds out how it shapes up...

Movies 20.09.2011

New trailer for The Thing

Simon Brew

The prequel to The Thing is getting closer. And this new red band trailer gives us more of an idea of what to expect...

Movies 08.09.2011

The Debt review

Ryan Lambie

Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain star in The Debt, an intriguing thriller of two halves. Here’s Ryan’s review…

Movies 26.08.2011

Music in the movies: the 10 finest non-score soundtracks

Glen Chapman

In this week's Music in the Movies, we pick out ten of cinema's finest non-score soundtracks...

Movies 28.07.2011

Lots of new pictures from The Thing

Simon Brew

The Thing prequel is heading to our screens later this year, and we've got some new images for it right here...

Movies 27.07.2011

The films to watch out for before the end of the year

Simon Brew

Summer blockbuster season may be coming to an end, but there are lots of interesting movies left to come in 2011. Such as this little lot…

Movies 17.07.2011

What we’ve learned from the trailer for The Thing

Ryan Lambie

It looks worryingly as though The Thing 2011 is going down a similar route to Robert Rodriguez's Predators, which made rather too many loving references to the 1987 Predator to work as a stand-alone film.

Having viewed the trailer for The Thing several times, we set down all that we’ve learned about this forthcoming prequel…

Movies 14.07.2011

Chilling first trailer appears for The Thing

Ryan Lambie

Snow, frightened men in beards and a shape-shifting alien. It can only be the trailer for the forthcoming The Thing prequel, which you can see here...

Movies 12.07.2011

New poster for The Thing

Simon Brew

There’s a brand new poster for the upcoming The Thing! And you can stare longingly at it right here…

Movies 23.06.2011

Cinema’s 10 greatest disembodied brains and heads

Ryan Lambie

We provide a rundown of ten of the most memorable and freaky floating brains and flying heads in the history of cinema...

Movies 09.06.2011

A celebration of Drew Struzan and hand-painted posters

Ryan Lambie

We celebrate the finest hand-painted posters ever created, and the artist that created many of them in recent years, Drew Struzan...

Movies 21.04.2011

Music in the movies: Patrick Doyle

Glen Chapman

Best known for his soundtracks for literary adaptations, composer Patrick Doyle is also behind the music for Marvel's incoming Thor. To celebrate, Glen salutes Doyle’s finest work…

Movies 28.03.2011

Top 10 goo-filled films to make you shudder

Ryan Lambie

Nowhere else will you see a man devoured by a dozen gallons of sentient shaving cream

Melting astronauts! Sentient ooze! We celebrate cinema’s most memorable goo-filled films…

Movies 16.03.2011

10 potentially great sci-fi movies coming in 2011

Ryan Lambie

With Battle: LA and Source Code already in cinemas, 2011’s shaping up to be a big year for sci-fi. Here are 10 other genre films set to appear over the next few months…

Movies 09.03.2011