Q&A with Kristian Levring
The spaghetti western gets a Danish twist! Kristian Levring talks reviving the genre with the help of Mads Mikkelsen in The Salvation.
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
The stop-motion wizards at Laika whip up another painstakingly intricate animation, this time following the magical tale of an orphan boy as he searches for a the legendary enchanted armour that will protect him from the wrath of a mystical evil.
In Conversation with Joe Lynch
Gorehound auteur Joe Lynch talks about his early career at Troma Studios, his experience with mainstream Hollywood, and directing Salma Hayek in unrelenting thriller Everly.
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Charlize Theron explodes off the screen as the MI6 agent tasked with recovering a sensitive list of secret aliases in this Cold War era thriller.
A Cure for Wellness (2017)
A frazzled executive tracks down his missing CEO to a luxury spa perched atop the Swiss Alps – but all is not as it seems in paradise…
Split (2016)
When an introverted girl is snatched by a dangerous killer suffering from multiple personality disorder, she must play her captor’s personas off against each other to escape with her life.
Birdman (2015)
Round three of our Oscar season reviews is here and, with the contenders announced earlier this week, what better film to plough on with than the nine-time Academy Award-nominated Birdman?!
The Interview (2014)
It was set for release. It was pushed back. It was pulled altogether and finally it was unleashed via digital download. By now you have probably heard the saga of a little comedy film that was dubbed “an act of war” by the totalitarian state of North Korea, a reaction that almost resulted in the censorship of a piece of American/Western culture. Fortunately, the greedy bastard champions of free expression over at Sony Pictures refused to be dictated to by a…dictator and delivered, as promised and in all its provocative glory, The Interview.
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
There are few words in the English language that, when placed side by side, promise as much as the phrase ‘vampire mockumentary’. Honestly, how has this not been done already? Well now it has and it’s brought to us by none other than (one half of) the hilarious musical duo Flight of the Conchords, so feel free to set your expectations sky high.
5 Times We’ve Fled the Planet in the Last Decade
Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster extravaganza sees the human race look to the stars in our never ending bid for survival. Here at The Movie Maniacs we’ve taken a look back at some of the other times mankind has had to pack up shop and high-tail it to space in the face of an imminent global disaster…
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