The Movie Waffler The Movie Waffler: December 2014

The Five Best Movies of December 2014

TMW's editor picks his five favourite movies from the past month.

New Release Review - Enemy

A timid college professor discovers his doppelganger residing in the same city.

New Release Review - A Most Violent Year

An immigrant struggles to keep his heating oil business afloat without resorting to illegal means.

TMW's 50 Best Movies of 2014

It's the end of another year and time for TMW's editor to pick his favourite movies of 2014.

Great Movie Posters - Best of 2014

Feast your eyes on the finest pieces of movie marketing from 2014, both official and fan-made.

2014: The Year in Genre TV

This past year proved to be a banner year for fans of genre television.  Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, which where largely viewed as niche programming in the past, have now become almost, if not completely, mainstream.

New Release Review - Birdman

A Hollywood star attempts to escape his past by directing and starring in a stage adaptation of a Raymond Carver story.

TMW's 2015 Movie Preview - Part 7: Remakes and Adaptations

If it's originality you're after, look away now. 2015 is set to give us a host of remakes and adaptations of novels, comics and video games.

TMW's 2015 Movie Preview - Part 6: True Stories

Hollywood loves true stories and there are plenty coming our way in 2015.

TMW's 2015 Movie Preview - Part 5: The Auteurs

Some of cinema's most revered directors have movies coming in 2015.

TMW's 2015 Movie Preview - Part 4: Sequels

There's a deluge of sequels headed your way in 2015.

TMW's 2015 Movie Preview - Part 3: Sci-Fi

The Force Awakens isn't the only sci-fi movie coming to screens in 2015.

TMW's 2015 Movie Preview - Part 2: Horror

2015 is set to be a big year for horror, with a host of sequels to recent hits and remakes of classics due to hit us.

TMW's 2015 Movie Preview - Part 1: Spy Movies

The genre that seems to be dominating the 2015 release schedule is, rather inexplicably, the spy movie.

First Look Review - 54 Days

Following a nuclear strike, tensions rise between five survivors in a bunker.

DVD Review - The Haunting of Black Wood

Three strangers find themselves at a mysterious cabin in the woods.

DVD Review - HE WHO DARES: DOWNING STREET SIEGE

A discharged SAS man must free Downing Street from the terrorists who have taken over Number 10.

New poster and Stephen Fry narrated trailer for Mortdecai

Courtesy of Lionsgate, we've got the brand new trailer for MORTDECAI, featuring narration from Stephen Fry!

First Look Review - The Gays

A family, consisting entirely of gay men, gathers for the holidays.

Watch three new Birdman featurettes

Courtesy of Fox Searchlight UK, we've got three new featurettes for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's highly anticipated BiRDMAN.

TMW's top tunes from 2014 movies

We've already highlighted the best scores of 2014, now here's our favourite non-score music from this year's movies.

Announcing our Pumping Iron winner

Pumping Iron, the classic documentary, is now available for download on digital HD for the first time with rarely seen content and interviews! We've got a copy to give away to one lucky reader.

New Release Review - Exodus: Gods and Kings

The biblical story of Moses and his campaign to free the Hebrew slaves from their Egyptian masters.

Xmas movies in infographics

With the holiday season upon us, here's a stat packed guide to Christmas movies in infographics.

Watch two new Inherent Vice clips

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures, we've got two brand new clips for INHERENT VICE.

Variations on a Christmas Classic: Top 5 A Christmas Carol adaptations

Charles Dickens wrote his novella A Christmas Carol during the early part of the Victorian era in Britain, helping to rejuvenate interest in older Christmas traditions in the England of the time and remaining a cornerstone of Christmas tradition in both Britain and America to this day. There have been many adaptations of this story on stage and in film over the year, with the following films representing some of the best of those adaptations on this Christmas classic.

First Look Review - Fear Town, USA

Parodic take on the slasher genre.

TMW's 10 Best Movie Scores of 2014

2014 gave us some memorable scores. Here, in no particular order, are TMW's favourites.

New Release Review - Big Eyes

The story of art fraudster Walter Keane, who passed off his wife Margaret's paintings of big-eyed waifs as his own work.

TMW's 10 Worst Movies of 2014

Turkeys aren't just for Christmas - we've had them all year long. Here are the 10 most excruciating movies of 2015.

New Release Review - Dumb & Dumber To

Belated sequel to the 1994 comedy hit.

Watch the first full trailer for The Divergent Series: Insurgent

Courtesy of Entertainment One, we've got the first full trailer for The Divergent Series: Insurgent.

Here's the official Inherent Vice trailer

Courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures, here's the official trailer for Inherent Vice.

Watch two new Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb featurettes

Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox, we've got two new behind the scenes Night at the Museum: secret of the Tomb featurettes.

New Release Review - Unbroken

The story of Olympic runner and prisoner of war Louis Zamperini.

DVD Review - Wakolda

A mysterious German doctor arrives at a newly opened hotel in rural Argentina.

Watch the trailer for San Andreas

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures, we've got the trailer for San Andreas, starring Dwayne Johnson, Paul Giamatti, and directed by Brad Peyton.

See where your favourite holiday movie was filmed with this interactive map

Maphook put together this interactive map to highlight the filming locations of the most beloved holiday movies.

New Release Review - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The closing chapter of the Hobbit trilogy.

NSFW images from Jessica Cameron's Mania

Horror icon Jessica Cameron sent us over the first images from her upcoming second directorial feature Mania. Cameron describes herself as "not safe for work", and neither are her images.

Trailer and poster for upcoming indie horror The Slashening

Courtesy of Annum Films, here's the poster and trailer for their upcoming raunchy slasher flick The Slashening.

Check out this interactive Inherent Vice poster

Learn more about the characters from Inherent Vice in this interactive character poster.

Robin Williams' 10 best roles

When Robin Williams sadly passed away on August 11th of this year, he left behind a legacy of great performances, unmatched by few of his peers. He may have begun in comedy, but as this list demonstrates, Williams quickly became as respected as a dramatic actor as he was revered for his comic talents.

Watch Ansel Elgort and company discuss Men, Women & Children in two new featurettes

To celebrate the release of Men, Women & Children, which hits cinemas today, Paramount have sent us two new featurettes featuring the star of The Fault in Our Stars, Ansel Elgort.

Watch two new clips from The Pyramid

The Pyramid opens in UK/ROI cinemas today and courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox, we've got two new clips.

Watch the Terminator: Genisys trailer and check out the poster

Courtesy of Paramount, we've got the debut trailer and poster for the upcoming Terminator: Genisys.

10 Directorial Coulda-Beens

Many iconic movies had completely different directors attached in their early stages.

10 Dramatic Physical Transformations for a Role

Over the years, actors have put themselves through gruelling transformations for roles. Here are ten of the most extreme.

Documentary Review - School of Babel

A year long look at a class of non French speaking immigrants in a special Parisian school.