Category: Features

  • Flickreel’s Best Movies of 2020

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    Some of these movies reflected the madness of 2020, others helped take our minds off 2020, and today we’re going to discuss the best 2020 had to offer. Read More >

  • How The Nightmare Before Christmas changed stop-motion forever

    When people think of projects that launched stop-motion animation into the mainstream, Rankin/Bass’ Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas usually come to mind. Read More >

  • Why do we revisit Hocus Pocus every Halloween?

    Is Hocus Pocus really as good as we remember or are people just wearing nostalgia goggles? Read More >

  • Did audiences miss the best show on Amazon Video?

    The best show on Amazon Video isn’t Transparent or Mozart in the Jungle. It’s a lost treasure called Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street. Read More >

  • Disney’s live-action Snow White – money-maker or crowd-pleaser? Our case for the live-action remake

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    Where cynics may perceive this as being a mere money-maker, can these re-imaginings not be instead taken as crowd-pleasers? Read More >

  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – IMAX Fan Featurette

    IMAX Fan Featurette for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Read More >

  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – “Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry” Video

    The latest video from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them uses stylish animation to show off America’s school of magic, better known as the Ilvermony school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Read More >

  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Wand Training Featurette

    The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Read More >

  • The BFG – Mark Rylance Featurette

    Disney has released a new featurette for The BFG which focuses on Mark Rylance’s character. Read More >

  • The Green-Light | Why one scene in Jurassic World almost made me like it as much as the original

    Welcome to The Green-Light, a new column from Gary Green. Find within spittle-flecked passion and encyclopaedic insight on everything to do with the movies. I love practical effects. I also love CGI, when it’s done right. Truly great effects can transport you further into the world of the movie, helping to create living, breathing characters… Read More >