Study: Watching scary movies helps burn calories
Watching scary movies can actually help to burn calories, according to a new study by British researchers.
October 29, 2012
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Watching scary movies can actually help to burn calories, according to a new study by British researchers.
“Shut up, you soppy tart, those things are zombies,†barks Alan Ford’s pensioner, Ray, in this vigorous slasher, which lampoons and lionises London’s East End in equal measure.
Vampires are so ubiquitous at the moment, you half expect one to emerge in Emmerdale.
“Hotel Transylvania” shut the door on “Frankenweenie” and “Dredd” got lost as competition for release slots intensifies. read more
Movies & Moonbeam presents “Rango” in the Red River District
You don’t expect much from a musical built on a foundation of 1980s glam-metal anthems, but you do expect it to be fun.
You can’t accuse Ben Drew, aka Plan B, of lacking ambition. In his debut film as a writer-director, he flits between numerous overlapping stories, and jumps back and forth in time, as he chronicles the lives of the crack addicts, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes who haunt a London council estate.
If there’s macramé or anything vaguely knotty in a British film you know it’s going to be creepy – this country’s foremost genre.
The Dictator is more conventional than Sacha Baron Cohen’s last two films, in that it has a proper script, and no duping of unsuspecting members of the public.
An intensely moving documentary, set in the extraordinary lunar terrain of Chile’s Atacama Desert, where the “translucency of the sky” was ideal for the country’s impressive, 1970s astronomy programme.