Ally Mitchell previews Jake Gyllenhaal’s latest film

Jack Crutcher looks at the the three shooters battling for dominance this winter

Are film adaptations becoming a tale of the all too expected?

We celebrate the release of ‘Skyfall’ with a Bond-themed top 5

Moya Crockett takes us down memory lane with some high school favourites

Jessie Cohen on egos, gender and what’s next for the movie-making wonder

A look at the nominees in contention for this year’s Barclaycard award.

The Greater Manchester Film Festival delivers a day to celebrate Manchester as the City of Cinema

GMFF founder Simon Powell presents the World Premiere of his first feature length film at the Greater Manchester Film Festival

George Bailey investigates yet another Smiths reunion rumour…

Flora Anderson guides us through her Top 5 cross-dressing countdown!

With the movie poster and release date unveiled last week, Sophie James anticipates the success of Sacha Gervasi’s “Hitchcock”

Our Cornerhouse Pick of the Week is Bertrand Tavernier’s 1980’s hit

Your guide to what’s on at Manchester ODEON this week.

A look at this year’s WHP series and what promises to be 12 weeks of pure, unadulterated messiness.

Vampires. These bloodsucking creatures have been the villains and sometimes the heroes, of films from the dawn of cinema; their power to both scare and enthral us remaining to this day.

We all love monsters, vampires, zombies, and so on and they’re fun (if you like to laugh at the improbable) but the truly memorable characters from horror movies, the ones that send a shiver down every viewer’s spines are the humans.

Of all the film scenes throughout history, nothing has ever matched the simplistic chill of Jurassic Park: A single coffee cup, shot up close as it ripples with the heavy footsteps of the approaching T-Rex. Why does this single image continue to instill so much dread in the general public? Because monsters are big. Really big.

So it’s Halloween and you and your flatmates sit down to enjoy a couple of scary movies. But Which do you choose? Well definitely not Land of the Dead with its dull plotline and zombies that appear to have escaped from the local care home; nor Blade with its ridiculous action sequences, and lack of style no matter how hard it tries.

You’re running through a deep, dark wasteland, pursued by an unspeakable terror. You can’t get away fast enough, and for some reason your every move is punctuated by gothic choral music. But then a thought occurs, and you stop. Why are you running?