By Simon Miraudo October 28, 2013 Every October, in the days leading up to Halloween, I like to look back over my favourite horror films, and watch those that have eluded me. It’s hard to explain why we like scary movies so. They don’t make us laugh, like comedies. They don’t move us, like dramas. […]
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The top 10 movie moments of all time
March 8, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo March 8, 2013 For the 100th episode of The (Pod) Casting Couch, I was asked to compile my ten favourite movie moments of all time. As someone who has devoted a lifetime to the pictures, that’s quite an ask. However, as an obsessive, list-making loser, it was also a dream come true. […]
Continue readingDavid Lynch working on new feature film screenplay
March 5, 2013 1 Comment
In a long – and particularly fascinating – NY Times piece on David Lynch’s association with Transcendental Meditation, we finally got the long-awaited confirmation that he is working on a new feature film screenplay; his first in over 7 years. Ever since his divisively experimental 2006 flick Inland Empire, we got the impression David Lynch […]
Continue readingVertigo tops Citizen Kane on Sight and Sound’s ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll
August 2, 2012 4 Comments
Vertigo has been named the ‘GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME’ (we figure the caps are necessary in this instance) on the latest Sight and Sound poll, ending Citizen Kane‘s 50-year rule. The British Film Institute collects the votes from more than 800 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors every decade to provide the most authoritative listing […]
Continue readingThe top 10 movies about movies
May 25, 2012 5 Comments
The top 10 movies about movies. By Simon Miraudo. At this year’s Oscars, the Academy decided to reward two pictures that were paeans to cinema itself: Michel Hazanavicius‘ silent saga of The Artist, and Martin Scorsese‘s tribute to Georges Méliès, Hugo (out now on DVD and Blu-ray). Such was the voters’ willingness to bestow them awards galore, you […]
Continue readingThe 10 scariest movie scenes
October 28, 2011 9 Comments
The 10 scariest movie scenes. By Simon Miraudo. “Werewolf bar mitzvah; spooky scary. Boys becoming men; men becoming wolves!” Halloween is just around the corner, and it’s got us reminiscing about our favourite horror flicks, as well as the scariest movie scenes of all time. So, grab some edible fingers, pour yourself a glass of eyeball […]
Continue readingHead to Head – Mulholland Drive
September 8, 2009 7 Comments
Welcome to the latest edition of our newly revamped Head to Head feature, in which our Quickflix critics take on our readers in a rip-snorting battle to the death! You pick the film, and we pick the fight! This week we received a baffling attack on the baffling David Lynch film Mulholland Drive from Patrick […]
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