DVD Review: Tape 407 The Mesa Reserve Incident

Leon Nicholson takes a look at found footage movie Tape 407, starring Abigail Schrader. Available now on DVD. Found footage movies are seemingly the norm at the moment. What was once an innovative, creative way of making a film is slowly but surely getting a little tiresome and uninspiring. Times have moved on since Cannibal Holocaust, the movie that more or less famously (or infamously) created the genre. Nearly 20 years later came The Blair Witch... Read More

Cinema Review: Apollo 18

Tom Chapman reviews Apollo 18 starring Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen and Ryan Robbins. Currently on General Release at UK Cinemas. In the wake of ‘shockumentary’ films such as Quarantine and Paranormal Activity, audiences have been left saturated with movies ‘based on reality.’ Now the genre has moved into Space with the offering of Apollo 18. With no-one fooled, the film claims to contain footage found from the scrapped Apollo... Read More

Introducing the Red Ring Brigade Radio podcast

FMV Magazine is proud to introduce the Red Ring Brigade Radio podcast, formed by FMV writer Jonathan Szafran and his friends Brent Harrington and Steve Lashway.  Every week they bring their listeners video game and film news, as well as their opinions on games they have been playing and films that are currently in theaters. As of this post Red Ring Brigade Radio is on its 25th episode and has accumulated a small group of fans, but now we are calling... Read More

Movie News: Surprising figures for The Help

For the past three weeks, The Help, has been the number 1 film at the US Box Office. It’s the first movie since Inception to have topped the charts in the US for three consecutive weekends. An adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name, set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights period in 1960’s America, centres on a white woman’s relationship with two black maids. To everyone’s surprise The Help has managed to hold off the... Read More