After the recent furore over Eli Roth’s Death Wish remake, John Higgins muses on where Action films have been and where they’re likely to head next. Thirty years after he ushered in the modern action blockbuster with the incomparable Die Hard, Bruce Willis appears to be on a slippery slide with his new film, a remake of […]

John Higgins goes back over the innovations produced by one of the most prolific bonds in the history of cinema: the Lucas and Spielberg friendship. Their work continues to pioneer and influence umpteen modern filmmakers and they retain that ever-friendly rivalry, going back to their early days at the inception of the so-called ‘Movie Brat’ […]

There is much promise to behold in Don’t Knock Twice, a reasonably effective horror-fest shot on location in Wales in the Autumn of 2015, writes John Higgins. Directed by Caradog James, we are firmly in Paranormal Activity/Conjuring territory, with a touch of The Amityville Horror and The Babadook thrown in for good measure. Battlestar Galactica‘s Katee Sackhoff plays […]

Remakes and reboots – can live with them, can avoid them (so some think), John Higgins looks at the history of two of the most successful examples. It seems these days we can’t read a film magazine or a newspaper article without some studio, worried about declining box-office and spread-sheets, announcing some obscure movie that […]