There is a long history of movie monsters such as the Hammer Horror classics of Dracula and Frankenstein, to name but 2, but in 1978 an iconic movie monster would hit the screen’s in John Carpenter’s Halloween. That would be the unstoppable killing machine that was Michael Myers, and unlike the 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a franchise started immediately with Halloween 2 … [Read more...]
Celebrate a Bad Film With Laughs!
We were reminded that on this day (October 11th) in 2007 that we finally saw our second Jaws film at the cinema. We had seen the first Jaws at a charity event raising funds for surfers against sewage but this time we were jumping to the final film Jaws: The Revenge! Now, we obviously have all 4 of the films on VHS/DVD although only the original on BluRay (sort it out Universal … [Read more...]
Jaws 19: Coming soon?
Jaws 19, the new holofilm, directed by Stephen Spielberg’s son Max, was predicted to hit Holomax cinemas in October 2015 in Back to the Future Part II. Now as we know there have been 4 Jaws films to date: Jaws: Which made you afraid to go in the water Jaws 2: Which made you afraid to go back in the water Jaws 3-D: Which was a new dimension in terror Jaws: The … [Read more...]
We Were Glad to Say Yes to Watching Yes Man Again!
If you put us on a spot and said who was our favourite author, we would say without hesitation that it was Danny Wallace! Every Thursday you will find us heading straight to his weekly Shortlist magazine column: http://www.shortlist.com/cool-stuff/danny-wallace-is-a-man and as if to encourage us, his profile picture includes a Chihuahua! The first time we heard about him was … [Read more...]
From our Playtime to Screen Time
Growing up, we all had a toy we probably loved and some of those toys have found their way to the movies to varying success. The companies that manufacture them have pretty much put all their products into movies to increase product awareness, for example: Barbie; G I Joe; My Little Pony; Masters of the Universe and the pack leader, the multi-million Transformers movies. One … [Read more...]