10 Days of Horror – Day Two: Lot254

Each day in the build-up to Halloween Flicks and Pieces will be opening a new door on its All Hallows’ Eve advent calendar – 10 Days of Horror – to share a hair-raisingly scary short film with you all. Day Two brings Lot254. Place your bids, if you dare.

10 Days of Horror – Day One: ABE

Halloween is upon us all once more! Last year in the run-up to All Hallows’ Eve, Flicks and Pieces brought 10 blood-soaked movie, television and video game suggestions to you in preparation for the big day itself. This year, 10 Days of Horror makes its return, but this time around each day will bring with it…

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From The Crypt: Getting To Know Guillermo del Toro

Crimson Peak is upon us. Released this week, Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic Romance takes us to a beautifully creepy mansion, following in the footsteps Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) to the home of her new love, Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), and his sister Lucille Sharpe (Jessica Chastain)….a home which is host for ghostly apparitions, and where all is not as it seems….

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American Horror Story: Hotel “Checking In” Review

There’s no doubting it, American Horror Story is an odd show. At its best, it’s scary (as the title would suggest), provocative and thrilling. At its worst, it’s a mess. The opening thirty minutes of season five sadly fall firmly into the latter camp, acting as a hyperactive montage of all of the worst bits of American…

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Everest Review

It’s a long, cold way to the tippy top of Mount Everest. A hike all the way to the cruising altitude of a Boeing 747; 8,848 metres, to be precise. Frost bite, heady heights, rope bridges and the ominous site of the world’s tallest mountain hanging over you….and that’s just the trek to Base Camp.

Check in at the American Horror Story: Hotel

American Horror Story is returning on October 7th, and this time we’re visiting Hotel Cortez, a delightful looking establishment in Los Angeles, for what is sure to be another nice and relaxing season of everyone’s grandmother’s favourite show….

Robert Zemeckis and Change in Cinema

“Film, as we have traditionally thought of it, is going to be different. But the continuum is man’s desire to tell stories around the campfire. The only thing that keeps changing is the campfire.”

The Angry Birds Movie Trailer

Finally, the one we’ve all been waiting for (?)! Today is the day we get our very first glimpse at the debut trailer for The Angry Birds Movie. Yes, it is a thing that’s happening. For the two people who have not spent countless hours flinging the titular birds across their smart phone screen whilst…

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The Revenant Is Coming…

“I ain’t afraid to die anymore, I done it already.” Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is a picky sort of guy. For his new western thriller, The Revenant, not only did he shoot entirely on location, in sequence, using natural light, but he also chose to shoot his follow-up to Birdman in snowy, -25 degrees conditions. Why?…

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Serena (2014) Review

Lets begin by getting the positive notes out of the way: Visually, Serena is nicely polished. It’s not particularly distinct in its photography, but Depression-Era North Carolina itself is recreated with enough detail in terms of its costume design and art direction that at least the setting of the film feels real…..it’s just a shame that nothing else…

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Legend Review

The gangster movie has been a staple of British cinema for many moons now. Be it Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Get Carter (1971) or Sexy Beast (2000), the criminal underworld has been well represented by the Brits, paving the way for more than a few cheap knock offs over the years, with East…

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