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Stephen King is arguably one of the most prolific authors of all time, and certainly of our generation. Though many think of him as the master of horror, he is a surprisingly adept weaver of dramas, able to navigate the darkness of the human psyche and relationships with the same ease as he handles killer clowns and zombies. His laid-back, straight-forward writing style makes his stories easy to understand and follow, and as a result, easy to bring to life on the big screen. Since 1976, there has hardly been a year that has gone by without a King work…

In accordance to the release of teen scream Wish Upon, we here at ScreenGeek got our noodles cooking to come up with this list: top five evil inanimate objects. While we won’t be including Wish Upon’s nasty box of horrors, we do have five other non-critters to give you the shivers. They might not have hearts, but they would love to see your’s ripped out of your chest. (Side note: we did not include the Mirror from Oculus, despite its obvious malice and badness,  as it made an appearance pretty recently in our Top Six Modern Monsters list. Be sure…

Car chases are a tricky thing to get right in film – for every sleek John Wick style scene out there, you’ve got at least a hundred spastic, awful Ultraviolet messes. But, as we’ve seen in the newly released Baby Driver, when it’s right, it feels soooooooo damn good. So, to save you the pain and wasted hours of digging through crap, we bring you the bright nuggets of the industry. The best car chase scenes, coming out of some spectacular films. On your marks, ready, go! Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) No. Not the Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie…

So this week’s themed movie list, as ordered by our editorial overlords, is ‘robot movies’. It’s been cleverly scheduled to coincide with the opening of the latest Transformers release. Frankly, we don’t know numerically how many sequels they’re up to by now – because they tend to blend all together – but we left what remained of our faith and interest in that franchise, lying somewhere on a cinema seat during the closing credits. But, I digress… The main problem with making any movie about robots is that the practical effects and accompanying CGI used have a tendency to look…

One of the more infamous scenes from Stephen King’s horror epic IT won’t likely appear in the upcoming movie adaptation. If you’ve read the novel, you know which bit I’m talking about. If you haven’t… well. Let me explain. The MPAA has dropped the rating for IT recently. True to most of the book, the film has been rated R for “violence/horror, bloody images, and for language.” What’s missing is any kind of warning for explicit sexual content which has caused a lot of fans to speculate that the novel’s infamous pre-teen orgy scene will not be making its way on screen. Yes, those…

With Cars 3 coming out this past weekend, Transformers out this week, and the anticipated return of Toy Story, we here at Screen Geek have got talking things on the brain. The way we see it, humans are boring and animal companions are cliched, and we think the world agrees, if movie trends are to be analysed. So, with that, we bring you what we believe to be the definitive list of most awesome inanimate characters in film (and one special bonus one from TV). Robots, candlesticks, and fireballs, oh my! Calcifer Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Miyazaki’s personal favorite out…

Those of you who regularly visit us here at ScreenGeek will know that we’re a website that likes to stay ‘on trend’, and ‘down with the kids’, so when big movies of a certain genre get released they tend to influence the content of our articles. This meant that with the latest installment of The Mummy franchise hitting cinemas this week, the brief was ‘Monster Movies’. Naturally, our first thoughts on the subject were to GO BIG, looking at the way in which Cloverfield led to a cinematic resurgence of epic, city-leveling behemoths. But then, we remembered that if the…

Everyone knows Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine. But what you might not know, is he actually has quite a few underrated roles in films you may have missed. Here are five of them that are definitely worth your time: Swordfish (2001) Cast your eyes down Hugh Jackman’s IMDb history, and sandwiched in-between the first two ‘X-Men’ movies is this utterly bonkers action-flick, Swordfish. It’s packed to the gills with pure cliche and OTT action sequences, with the makers clearly having forgotten to read the memo telling them the 90’s were over. Why is it relevant in Jackman’s career? For starters,…

In these recent years, we’ve been blessed with a glut of amazing superhero movies. Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers, the Nolan Batman trilogy; all of these with engaging, fully realized characters, cheeky dialogue, and action that would knock the pants right off of your butt. It’s been a good run for comic book heroes. However, as with any genre, there are the black sheep. The ones with a little less character development, mediocre scripts, and effects that don’t measure up. The poorly received films that are pushed aside in favor of their bigger, brighter siblings. Well, today, we say no more. We…

When he’s not the source of hilarious internet memes used for the purposes of motivating others, actor Shia LaBeouf has been making a career starring in smaller and more independent productions such as American Honey and Nymphomaniac. The actor had previously starred in many bigger budget productions, not the least of which being the first three of Michael Bay’s Transformers films and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Whether or not LaBeouf will ever return to films that big is up in the air, but the actor did reveal he had the opportunity to once again star…