Now in its eleventh edition, this year’s London Korean Film Festival boasts some 40 features, a smaller number of which toured beyond London to Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast. Amid the usual programme of Korea’s latest hits and indie titles, shorts and documentaries, there was also a welcome showcase of work directed by women […]
Tag: thriller
Voyeuristic Movies: The Fascinatingly Disturbing Works of Hitchcock, Lynch…
“You like to watch … don’t you?” Sharon Stone’s iconic line in 1993’s erotic thriller “Sliver” addresses the viewer as much as it does a character in the movie. Voyeurism in cinema is a theme long exploited by directors and writers. Films often like to address voyeuristic tendencies, whether through plot or aesthetics, but movies […]
10 Modern Movie Thrillers You Should Watch
We often go to the movies to be thrilled and no other art form can thrill us so spectacularly. Leaving the world behind for a couple of hours and engaging with a plot and characters often far removed from our own lives is part and parcel of the big screen’s charm and persuasion. Thrillers come […]
10 Movies You Should Watch in 2015
It’s that time of year, the beginning of a new one, where we take a close look at the movie calendar and pick out upcoming titles that have caught the eye. It feels like cinema is in very good health at the minute, with classic picture after classic picture being released. Is this a golden […]
10 Great Modern Scandinavian Films
As it turns out there is more to Scandinavian cinema than just Ingmar Bergman and bleak, wintry black and white films which contemplate the human condition, religion and death. A new generation of young filmmakers are challenging old stereotypes and forging exciting new ground. The current landscape of Nordic cinema is very exciting. Some of […]
10 Movies That Mess With Your Head
It is often said that movies are the closest thing we have to re-experiencing our dreams. As can often happen after eating a block of cheddar cheese before bedtime, directors can present us with perplexing movie-dreams packed to the gills with the absurd, the baffling, the confusing, the mind-melting and sometimes just the plain old […]
Films about Vicious Killers
Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. Serial killers and mass murderers have been terrifying filmgoers for almost as long as moving pictures have existed. There is something about getting inside the mind of a killer that is both compelling and repulsive and it is this friction that makes […]
Beautiful Erotic Movies
Sexual and erotic scenes in cinema are one of those things that are very easy to get wrong and especially difficult to get right. But with the right photography, actors and mood generated it can be quite beautiful, as the films in this list demonstrate… Top: Niels Schneider strips down in “Heartbeats” (2010). A luminous […]