Harold Ramis – The Passing of a Legend
By James Plummer on 25 February, 2014
My first memories in life are from being 3 years old. I don't know which one is the earliest, but I know that one of...
Scorpion Child Kings Highway Video
Happy Saturday morning folks. We have an exciting new visual treat from a director whom we featured on the site a few months ago. The...
Alan Silvestri to Thomas Newman and Back Again
By James Plummer on 9 February, 2014
Recently I watched a really great Hollywood Reporter roundtable featuring this year's Oscar nominated composers. The lineup was Steven Price, Hans Zimmer, Christoph Peck, Henry...
Philip Seymour Hoffman – In Memoriam
As I watched the frenzied Sky News coverage of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman last night I became enraged at the idiocy of the...
Why I Love the Matrix Trilogy
By James Plummer on 11 December, 2013
Why did I feel like I was breaking a taboo in writing the title of this article? It annoys me that I did. But it...
Andrea Bocelli at Leeds Arena – This'll take some beating!
By James Plummer on 28 November, 2013
Opera is such a cinematic art form. It's full of drama, passion and thematic melodies that create enormous amounts of emotion. This was none more...
Body Mind Change – David Cronenberg's Interactive Mind Game
David Cronenberg has always been a purveyor of the shocking. His films have provided cinema with some of its most horrifying and iconic images, with...
Educating Yorkshire – A cinematic moment!
By James Plummer on 6 November, 2013
I have to start by saying I haven't been watching Educating Yorkshire. Having dismissed it as a show that would paint us Yorkshire folk in...
Cultoid Heroes – John Hughes
We here at Cultoid HQ have many cinematic influences and idols that have helped shape the warped, twisted and generally odd individuals we are today....
Danny Elfman Leeds Arena
By James Plummer on 10 October, 2013
Cometh the hour, cometh the man, so they say, and it has never had more resonance to me than when Danny Elfman stepped out on...