Like many, I was initally extremely resistant when I heard that the new War of the Worlds movie was going to be set in contemporary America. This was mainly because no-one's ever made a decent version of the original story, set in Victorian england. I can see it so vividly in my head when I read it, I really wish someone would get as excited about it as I am and make a proper movie. The architectu ...

The Descent will scare the shit out of you. Let's get that straight right off the bat. I jumped out of my seat at least three times, probably a lot more. The director definitely sat down and said, first and foremost, before anything else, let's give people a few good frights. It's some scary stuff. (You can always tell a good scary film when you're walking home from the cinema in the dark and you ...

In the 1920's, Japanese novelist Takeda Rintaro wrote a short story about a young woman which was far more successful than he'd bargained for. Immediately after its publication, hundreds of people contacted him, demanding that he write another story. She seemed so real to them that they needed to know what happened to her "next". I could kind of symapthize with them all coming out of Maria Full ...

"It's Memento meets Fight Club!" the posters proudly announce at every possible oportunity. And they're not half wrong. In terms of being a murder-mystery in reverse with a man who refuses to remember the details, it's very much like Memento. And in terms of being the story of an insomniac who slowly figures out he's lost his mind, it's also a lot like Fight Club. However, while it is a decent and ...