Note: Click on all the images to see them full size. If you love movies as much as I do, there’s a good chance that you love movie posters too. You probably have them on your walls, use one as your desktop wallpaper, and perhaps even collect movie posters like some people collect Picassos. I have a few myself, and why not? Some movie posters trul...

Fandango Groovers Movie Blog is running a huge old blogathon which I just had to be a part of. The basis is simple; pick your favourite year for movies and then furnish your selection with five movies from that year. Sound difficult? Wasn’t for me. I knew straight away where I was going to go with this. Ahh, the 80s. I was born in the year...

I have been summoned by Scott at Front Room Cinema to attend to the latest Meme working its way across the blogosphere. And because I’m a good, dutiful zombie, I’m going to oblige my friend. The rules to the 7 x 7 Link Award are simple: 1: Tell everyone something about yourself that nobody else knows. 2: Link to a post I think fits the...

Directors love an in-joke. There are an awful lot of movies out there that contain the odd knowing reference, cameo or other visual gag. For some filmmakers they are as much a part of cinema’s language as dollying and panning. More often than not they are references to other movies from the work of the star/director/producer of the movie you...

What would Christmas be without Santa Claus? For kids the world over this chubby, jovial character personifies everything that children hold dear about the festive season. Namely, getting sacks full of expensive presents and eating until you pass out. Whether Saint Nicholas actually exists or not is a moot point, because anyone can don the famous r...

So, here’s the story. While we were chatting about possible blog ideas, my friend and fellow blogger Margaret Reyes Dempsey over at Conjuring My Muse challenged me to compile a list of Top Ten: Movie Characters With Fur. After we’d finished laughing our asses off I gave it another thought and decided to accept the challenge. Why not? Af...

The Hole Starring: Chris Massoglia, Haley Bennett, Nathan Gamble, Teri Polo, Bruce Dern Director: Joe Dante Newly arrived in the small town of Bensonville, brothers Dane and Lucas discover a seemingly bottomless hole in the basement of their new house. Shortly after opening the trapdoor which covers the hole, strange things begin to creep out, play...