
Take 5: Favourite Openings in Film
A hook. Screenwriters know every script needs one. Some writers who gleefully break the rules, but it’s hard to find a movie that avoids...
A collection of articles concerning films, both old and new.

A hook. Screenwriters know every script needs one. Some writers who gleefully break the rules, but it’s hard to find a movie that avoids...

A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit post-Brexit Britain and adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother... but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.

A Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

Once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, two would-be rockers find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfil their destiny.

In the future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil at bay.

A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Former musician and gunslinger El Mariachi arrives at a small Mexican border town after being away for a long time. His past quickly catches up with him and he soon gets entangled with the local drug kingpin and his gang.

When a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local cop must team with an ex-soldier to take down the group responsible for its creation.

Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.

A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.