The Film Canary

Since we lost this year a couple of favourite actors of mine, I thought I'd include a trailer featuring the two of them together, as a s...

Getting back into the blogging saddle again, so amongst other things, we're doing this again!  However, there is a sad reason for this w...

Since I've nearly finished Blogtober, the big day of Halloween is tomorrow, and the Justgiving page has been my most successful yet (BTW...

This week, it's a trailer for a film I have an interesting history with.  I finally got to see it about this time last year for my Octob...

Time for a little reel of extended trailers related to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, as discovered by The Duke Mitchell Film Club ....

I have strayed far from my roots, going for trailers that are far too respectable, we need something utterly ridiculous.  Help us out Kenny ...

I was a bit hesitant about having this one, as the trailer is a bit spoilery, but it's been on my mind recently, so I want to have a cha...

Been too good on here recently, we need some silly schlock as we're going into the Halloween season, dammit!  And what better place is t...

A special extra selection of trailers today, as this marks the twentieth anniversary of the Moon being blasted out of orbit.  What do you me...

A little later than planned, but given that it's exactly seven weeks till Halloween today, I thought I'd move these to Thursday unti...

A random rewatch from my pile for this week's trailer.  I hadn't thought of this film in years, then an article for its 20th anniver...

So D23 has been going on this weekend, the latest boasting session from the juggernaut dominating global entertainment at the moment.  One b...

So it's a bit late, been busy at Worldcon in Dublin, but I wanted to write at least something on here, so let's do something related...

Studios and film production companies these days are very much in the vein of major corporations, it's extremely rare to have an actual ...

Sorry for the quiet around here; a lot of personal stuff has been going on, including starting a new temp job, so not as much time for writi...

The little Agatha Christie season I'm having on here continues with an attempt to bring Miss Marple back to cinemas, in a way that's...

I make it very clear that I lean into genre fare on here, and I make no apology, and take no shame in that.  But variety is the spice of lif...

One thing I've been listening to over the last year has been the superb Evolution of Horror podcast.  A fine discussion of the genre, h...

So Child's Play came out on Friday , and there's a fun scene of Andy and his friends watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, which ...

Originally I had something else planned for this post; in fact I was going to drop a whole "silly" movie trailer angle altogether...