Brilliant Beginnings

A film lives or dies by its beginning. If you haven’t hooked the audience within the first twenty minutes it is an uphill battle from then on. The first twenty minutes of a film are crucial to its success artistically and, no doubt, financially. A brilliant beginning can make a good film great or a [...]

Zombies at Dawn

I am not a great fan of film remakes as they rarely live up to the original but when I heard that George Romero’s cult classic “Zombies – Dawn of the Dead” (or better, Zombies at Woolworth’s) was to be remade then my ears pricked up a little.
I first tried to see the original in [...]