“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” The most memorable movie mums.

By Simon Miraudo May 7, 2014 Cinema history is littered with memorable movie mums, from the nurturing to the smothering to… well, whatever you call the son-swapping ladies in Adoration. Here are five of my favourite, all with their own unique personalities and peculiarities. With the exception of maybe one, they’re certain to make you […]

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The 10 scariest films of all time

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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Death by a thousand cuts – Hitchcock review

By Richard Haridy May 15, 2013 There are a multitude of sordidly fascinating directions a biopic on Alfred Hitchcock could take. So, when Sacha Gervasi‘s flat and frothy Hitchcock concludes, it’s inevitably frustrating to find this film takes such a conventional path. Hitchcock opens right when the great man was at the top of his game, having just released the gloriously […]

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Vera Farmiga to play Norman Bates’ mother in Psycho TV show

Vera Farmiga will play Norman Bates’ mother – pre-skeletal, of course – in Bates Motel, A&E’s TV series based on Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic Psycho. According to Deadline, Norman’s mother is called Norma, and is a “passionate, and compelling…smart, multidimensional character who is always capable of surprising us.” Bates Motel has a straight-to-series order, so we can look forward to 10 episodes arriving […]

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Play It Again – Psycho

Play It Again – Psycho. Starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and John Gavin. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which classic-film connoisseur Jess Lomas revisits a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged […]

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Play It Again – Rebecca

Play It Again – Rebecca. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which classic-film connoisseur Jess Lomas revisits a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca […]

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The 10 scariest movie scenes

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 […]

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The 10 least threatening movie killers

The 10 least threatening movie killers. By Simon Miraudo. Is there a more lovable actor than Steve Carell working today? We think not. Don’t you just want to cuddle him?! He’s abandoned his post at The Office and is now looking for more serious feature film fare, such as the recently announced Foxcatcher in which […]

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>Anvil director tackles ‘Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho’

>We all knew it was going to happen; but I certainly would never have guessed it was going to happen quite like this… According to the L.A. Times, Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) is in discussions with executives at Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Pictures to direct the film adaptation of one chapter from Stephen […]

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The 20 scariest movie moments!

Be warned ye’ who enter: for this is THE LIST OF THE DAMNED! Not really. But we’re in a spooky mood here at Quickflix, and have decided to make a list of the 20 scariest movie moments of all time. We’ll take you through the most blood-curdling, gut-wrenching, sweat-inducing and soul-crushingly terrifying scenes in movie […]

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