Welcome to a BRAND NEW SERIES by Film Trap writer Chloë Brett: "The Most Important Movie In The World"! Chloë will analyze the importance of certain films to individuals and try to answer the question "What's your favourite movie?" in this ongoing series. By Chloë...
A Year in Film - 2017 Nicolas Cage Retrospective By Chloë Brett We all know James Franco is fast coming for Nicolas Cage’s throne but the king of “How Many Movies Did He Put Out This Year?” has yet to be knocked down. In the past 3 year Nicolas Cage has been in 13...
I didn't love DETENTION the first time I saw it. I probably got a little too excited when I heard it was going to be a John Hughes style high school comedy married to Joseph Kahn's hyperactive directorial style, slasher movie tropes, and time travel craziness. I was a...
I am a Midnight Madness obsessive and have bought a ten ticket pass every year since 2008 (100$ as a student back in the day! R.I.P pass). My favorite movie going memories are the ones I made waiting in line for hours with friends (rain or shine), reacting as one with...
As a kid with dial up internet I would spend every waking out trawling cult movie review websites: BADMOVIES.ORG. ZOMBIE KEEPER. STOMP TOKYO. I discovered the work of John Woo, Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson and hundreds of other directors that blew my mind, redefined my...
I was going to write an article bout the loss of a great artist and what he means to me. I made a video instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfTv4ffrkC0&feature=youtu.be
Don Siegel's THE BEGUILED is a mean sweaty movie lathered in southern Gothic thrills. The director of such macho fist pumpers as DIRTY HAIRY and THE KILLERS directs a crippled yankee Clint Eastwood into the hands of a group of women that live in a large southern...
“It's a truth, universally acknowledged, that teenagers are fucking idiots.” Jane Austin said that, and it still rings true today. It's every human being’s God-given right to be a moody asshole, but that doesn't make you smart. Brooding all the time doesn't give you...
Centuries ago when I was still in College, I would spend the summers earning a little extra dough by working at an A&W fast food restaurant. One day, one of my co-workers (for the sake of this article we’ll call him Duke Bimblebottom Scrimbleswitch the Third - not...
During the intermission of the Ultraman Double Bill at the Royal Cinema this weekend, I noticed that there was a handful of kids hanging around in the lobby with their parents. All of the kids had giant grins on their faces and a few of them actually had Ultraman...
