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Posted by Team Boxwish 5 months ago
Want to get into the spooky spirit this Halloween without getting too carried away? Well, look no further than our movie masks and creepy clothing. They both make a fantastic compromise to fancy dress, providing the ideal option for those too self-conscious to go the whole hog or don’t have enough time to assemble an entire outfit. Their low maintenance charms can also be the perfect finishing touch to an outfit, and, for those of us watching the pennies, they’re less bruising to the bank balance than top-to-toe costumes. We’ve chosen ten of the best, referencing vicious villains and noble heroes, that we think are sure to scare, amuse and delight come fright night.
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Halloween party time: Top ten scary movie soundtracks
Posted by Team Boxwish 5 months ago
There are many ways to scare someone. However when it comes to full-on frights for Halloween the power of music shouldn’t be underestimated and ruling the roast of terrifying tunes is movie music. Spooky soundtracks and scores have long sent a shiver up the collective spine, a few discordant chords here and there capable of transforming an innocent-looking scene into one of dread and fear. And over the years, there have been numerous contenders for scariest screen music and we’ve rounded up ten top contenders that are guaranteed to create a noisy nightmare for your party guests. And if these foolproof soundtracks don’t work, just throw on the Titanic CD. Celine Dion always has them howling!
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Halloween party time: Decorate with horror movie merchandise
Posted by Team Boxwish 5 months ago
The music’s spooky, everyone’s dressed in scary fancy dress and you have an itinerary packed full of scream-inducing activities – your Halloween party is practically perfect. But what of the decorations? It’s essential to set the mood from the moment your guests arrive, bombarding them with full-on frights, anything else being half-assed and a bit lame. And as you’re going to be throwing THE best Halloween party this year, it’s time to think through your decor decisions. Are you going to go gothic or more modern? Full-on gory or just a little gruesome? As always, we’re here to hold your hand and help you through the process as we bring you ten top horror movie-inspired merchandise.
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Top ten women's fancy dress costumes
Posted by Team Boxwish 5 months ago
Prepare to dazzle ladies, as we’re shining our style spotlight on female fancy dress costumes. As always, we’re here to smooth out any fashion faux pas and appreciate what a potential minefield October 31st can prove for the less hairy sex. Do you go full-out horror in the true spooky spirit of the event and risk looking rank or keep it fun and flirty but safe and silly? It’s a clothing conundrum spoofed to hilarious effect in Mean Girls as bimbo Karen (Amanda Seyfried) asks Lindsay Lohan’s Cady why she’s “dressed so scary”. “It’s Halloween,” Cady deadpans.
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Halloween party time: Ideas for your party
Posted by Team Boxwish 5 months ago
You’ve been talking about it for weeks, the guest list has gone out and you’ve even bought your fancy dress costume (and if you haven’t check out our brilliant range here), now the only thing to do is actually organise the party. People are relying on this event to make their weekend, they’ve chosen it other over invitations and you don’t want to be the one to ruin their Halloween, potentially one of the best partying nights of the year. There’s no shirking it, but it seems such a massive task. Where to start and how to make your event stand out as an unbelievable success rather than a terrible failure? No need to panic and start reaching for the brown paper bag as we’ve got five fang-tastic suggestions to make your October 31st go with a bang.
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Top ten men's fancy dress costumes
Posted by Team Boxwish 5 months ago
Fancy dress can be a minefield that can impossible for the average guy to navigate. And here at Boxwish we understand that you’re busy, that you haven’t time to make your own ensemble and that dressing up in public isn’t something that comes naturally to you, and so we’re here to help and make it all as pain-free as possible. So, worry not as we’ve elected ourselves as your stylist for the scary shindig and will help you get the creepy costume of your dreams, minus any fuss and bother. So sit back and relax as we bring you ten top men’s movie-inspired Halloween fancy dress costumes.
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Halloween party time: Ideas for your sleepover
Posted by Team Boxwish 5 months ago
It’s that time of year again party-lovers when things go bump in the night. Yes, we’re talking about Halloween, the holiday celebrated for its sheer spookiness every 31st October. And to help make this year’s party that extra bit special, we’re bringing you oodles of fantastic ideas set to make your event THE one that everyone’s tweeting about afterwards. These ideas aren’t overly complicated, time-consuming or expensive, so don’t fear that it’ll interfere too much with your schedule or drain your finances. We’re talking simple suggestions that are far more treat than trick.So get your mates round for the evening and let Boxwish act as your own personal party planner.
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Top five holiday resorts in movies
Posted by Team Boxwish 5 months ago
“It’s Disneyland for adults,” enthuses Cynthia (Kristen Bell), about the Eden Resort, the tropical island getaway in new ensemble rom-com Couples Retreat. Accompanied by her husband, Jason (Jason Bateman), she gives a PowerPoint presentation on the virtues of the exclusive South Pacific holiday hotspot to their closest friends in a bid to convince them to all to vacation there. Her promotional pre-amble is impressive, the place boasting a four star restaurant, state-of-the-art spa and facilities to go kayaking, windsurfing, canoeing and more. Yet it’s the Pelican package’s “couples skills building” that has her and her hubby hooked, as they try to work through their differences rather than end up in the divorce court.
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Top ten weird and wonderful movie homes
Posted by Team Boxwish 6 months ago
As cinema can have you yearning for a character’s wardrobe, garage of cars or array of gadgets, so it can have you dreaming of living in that person’s home. Maybe it’s the house’s incredible location, its distinctive architecture or the furnishings contained within, the property casts a seductive spell that has you whispering “I want”. And there have been so many over the years, from Cameron Frye’s in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to the Cullens’ minimalist forest retreat in Twilight, Vandamm’s mountainside mansion in North by Northwest to the offbeat charms of the Tenenbaums’ Manhattan residence in The Royal Tenenbaums, not forgetting those that are almost characters unto themselves such as Mandalay in Rebecca and Tara in Gone With the Wind. But one thing lacking from each and every one of these memorable homes is the ability to fly. Introducing Carl Fredricksen’s residence from new Disney•Pixar romp, Up.
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Posted by Team Boxwish 6 months ago
Science wasn’t Boxwish’s strong suit at school, (instead we stared out the window and replayed our favourite films in our heads), but thankfully there are some folk out there with a talent for innovation and the movies are chock full of them. These often wild-haired brainboxes vary from those truly pushing the boundaries of possibility to others more content to create realistic, practical gadgets and yet we love them all. And joining this list of imaginative free-thinkers is Mark Bellison, the latest comic creation of Ricky Gervais (TV’s The Office and Extras) in new chucklefest The Invention of Lying.
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Top ten pairs of strikingly similar movies
Posted by Team Boxwish 6 months ago
Hollywood is often under fire for its lack of originality. In these days of sequels and prequels, remakes and re-imaginings and adaptations of everything from graphic novels to epic poems, video games to cult TV shows, it can seem like a new idea is more precious than even Gollum could imagine. Look no further than the new comedy vehicle for Seth Rogen, Observe and Report. This comic caper centres around an overly officious mall security cop who finds it’s up to him to battle a criminal element on his turf. Sound familiar? It should, it’s practically the same plot that Kevin James milked for laughs just last month in Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
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Top ten sci-fi comic book movies
Posted by Nic 6 months ago
Fans of science fiction are spoilt buggers. The literary genre has historically taken a number of forms, from novels to pulp magazines to short stories, each one rich with creative minds such as pioneering legends H.G. Wells War of the Worlds) and Jules Verne (Journey to the Center of the Earth) through to 20th Century favourites like Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey), Isaac Asimov (I, Robot) and Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner). And these writers, accompanied by many of their peers and successors, have long provided fodder for film adaptations. However there is another branch of the literature, one that fully captures the visual spectacle of sci-fi that is perhaps less familiar – comic books.
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Posted by Team Boxwish 6 months ago
Cinema-going can be hungry business. You just try to navigate your way past the concessions stand with its arousing aroma of salty popcorn, hotdogs turning on the grill and seemingly endless bags of chocolates without giving in and joining the queue – it’s impossible. The knowledge that you’re going to be sat rooted to the same spot for a couple of hours with nothing to snack on is too scary to contemplate and so we stock up in preparation, making our way to our seat ladened down with mini tubs of Häagen-Dazs and super-sized soft drinks. But how are we to break free and deny the rumblings of our belly when movies keep reminding us of the sensual pleasures of eating? It’s a vicious circle, one that is set to claim more victims with the release of the oh-so-yummy Julie and Julia.
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Top ten fictional computer games in movies
Posted by Team Boxwish 7 months ago
Think today’s video games are addictive? Well they’ve got nothing on their fictional counterparts from the fantastical world of films. These cyber realities offer much more than the likes of Nintendo or Electronic Arts can offer; the limitations of existing real-life technology ignored and replaced by incredible ideas that are so far-fetched and scientifically impossible as to excite even the staunchest technophobe. These futuristic concepts know no boundaries except those of a filmmaker’s imagination and so it goes in new action thriller Gamer starring Gerard Butler.
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Top ten most dangerous movie jobs
Posted by Team Boxwish 7 months ago
Does Kathryn Bigelow feel fear? We suspect not. The director of such action fare as Point Break, Strange Days and K-19: The Widowmaker has forged a successful career in a very male-dominated profession and even survived a few years of marriage to James Cameron, and now she’s back with another macho movie, Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker. “Fear has a bad reputation, but I think that’s ill-deserved,” she says of her latest effort which follows an elite Army bomb squad unit that risk their lives every time they’re called into action. Lavished with critical praise and heaped with festival awards, it places fear and danger centre stage examining how and why these men, led by Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner) do what they do, often volunteering for such perilous missions.
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Posted by Team Boxwish 7 months ago
Long-time lovers of Disney films should recognise Witch Mountain. The fabled peek attracted attention with two sci-fi family classics in the 70s, 1975’s Escape to Witch Mountain and its sequel three years later Return from Witch Mountain and now it’s back in Race to Witch Mountain. A remake of the original, itself an adaptation of the Alexander Key story, there have been a few tweaks made to the tale of orphaned siblings with paranormal powers the most instantly noticeable the presence of ex-WWE wrestler Dwayne Johnson (formerly The Rock).
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Top five kick-ass movie kill squads
Posted by Team Boxwish 7 months ago
“My name is Lieutenant Aldo Raine and I need me eight soldiers,” hollers a moustachioed Brad Pitt to his assembled crew of Jewish-American military men in Inglourious Basterds. “We’re gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. We’re gonna be doing one thing and one thing only… killing Nazis.” The gang nod in bloodthirsty delight (clearly there’s no need for a question and answer session afterwards) and with that his titular gang of ‘Basterds’ is born.
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Posted by Team Boxwish 8 months ago
Nothing screams macho cool more than a Hummer and so it’s a fantastic fit for the military gangs from new action adventure G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Negative early word-of-mouth and a late summer release slot has seen the big screen outing for the 1980s toys overshadowed by other blockbusters, but this hasn’t stopped Hummer fans from excitedly anticipating the Stephen Sommers flick and it doesn’t disappoint. A Hummer H2 steps into the fray as the Steel Crusher, a beast of a road warrior and already the toy version (available at the link below) is becoming a huge seller. The H2 even provides a fantastic action scene in which fan favourite Snake Eyes (Ray Park, former Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Sith villain Darth Maul) rides it before leaping off as the H2 crashes and burns.
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Top ten stand-up comedian characters in movies
Posted by Team Boxwish 8 months ago
If you like your live entertainment a little on the wacky side, Edinburgh is THE place to be from Friday as the world famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival kicks off. Expect the usual strange shenanigans, whether from the comfort of established venues or just on the Royal Mile as performers from all across the globe strive to stand-out and make a name for themselves. And this corner of Scotland has proved fertile ground for many budding stars, especially in the stand-up comedy business.
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Top ten movies that predict the future
Posted by Team Boxwish 8 months ago
Looking into a crystal ball, reading tea leaves or astrology, all point in the same direction – the future. And in new thriller Knowing, its numbers that have it as Nicolas Cage’s MIT professor John Koestler finds a long-buried list of numbers that correlate with the dates, death tolls and locations of major world disasters. Terrifyingly, the list is still in progress with more horrors to come. Can they be avoided and how did a school child 50 years ago manage to accurately predict such events?
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Top five 1970s TV shows turned movies
Posted by Team Boxwish 8 months ago
Hollywood certainly likes to do its fair share of recycling and we’re not talking separating its plastic bottles from its waste paper. Instead, it likes to re-use past ideas, re-working them into something that speaks to modern audiences and it’s not too fussy about its source material either. Consider that back in the late 1940s, the American film industry feared the advent of television as an entertainment usurper that would steal its viewers. Fast forward a few years and note how much has changed. Not only has the big screen embraced the small, but the relationship has become so friendly that TV has become a font of inspiration for the movie community offering a wealth of suggestions ready to make the transition.
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Top ten New York City subway movie moments
Posted by Team Boxwish 8 months ago
“There’s very few movies actually done in the subways of New York,” says director Tony Scott, clearly proud that his new action thriller, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is one of the small number that is. For this explosive face-off between train hijacker Ryder (John Travolta) and train dispatcher Walter Gerber (Denzel Washington), the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) gifted the Brit helmer with the keys to the underground kingdom, providing not just the locations but also in Scott’s words “real trains to play with”.
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Top ten modes of transport in the Harry Potter movies
Posted by Team Boxwish 8 months ago
Planes, trains and automobiles – transport is pretty limited in the world of Muggles. Sure you can “pimp your ride” and all that jazz, but it’s impossible not to feel jealous of all the varied and exciting modes of transport on offer in the magical world of Harry Potter. There’s no need for Harry (played by Daniel Radcliffe) to play ‘I spy’ on a car journey or pack the travel scrabble for a long-haul flight, for he and his chums get to travel in wondrous wizard style. They can choose between transport that is purely fantastical like broomsticks and floo powder and that which originates in the Muggle world yet given an injection of fanciful fiction, such as the Hogwarts Express and the Knight Bus.
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Posted by Team Boxwish 8 months ago
Stand up and take a bow Harry Potter. There aren’t many film franchises that make it to their sixth screen outing and that’s the impressive benchmark the boy wizard and his friends have reached with new adventure, The Half-Blood Prince. As all HP fans know, this isn’t the last we’ll see of Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) as there are two more tales to follow (technically one, The Deathly Hallows, albeit split into two films), however it is a great time to show some love to other movie hexologies. And so we’re looking at half a dozen cinematic sagas that have hit us for six.
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Top three flamboyant fashionistas in movies
Posted by Team Boxwish 8 months ago
Vassup! Say hello to Brüno, the latest comedy creation of chameleon Sacha Baron Cohen. Not content with the ruckus he caused in 2006 with his Kazakhstani TV reporter Borat Sagdiyev, the man behind the shock comedy returns with another controversial character – the flamboyantly dressed homosexual Austrian reporter Brüno. And like his moustachioed predecessor, Brüno lands in the US of A to give the American public a heavy dose of his comedy quirks, most obvious in his theatrical style of dress.
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Posted by Team Boxwish 9 months ago
There’s no doubting how suave and sophisticated Johnny Depp looks as infamous 30s gangster John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s new crime thriller Public Enemies. From his herringbone tweed suits to his fedora hats, Depp is the very picture of gangster chic as he rampages through America’s Midwest robbing banks with his criminal cohorts including Pretty Boy Floyd (Fighting’s Channing Tatum) and Baby Face Nelson (Snatch’s Stephen Graham). Yet it’s all far from unexpected.
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Top ten quirky start-up businesses in movies
Posted by Team Boxwish 9 months ago
Try and think up a job as far-fetched and fantastical as you can and chances are there’s someone out there doing it right now. From dog food testers to fortune cookie writers, there is a world beyond the everyday populated by weird and wonderful occupations available to those with open-minds and or big overdrafts. And one such bizarre profession is keeping single mum Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) and her slacker younger sister Norah (Emily Blunt) busy in quirky new indie Sunshine Cleaning – crime scene cleaning.
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Posted by Team Boxwish 9 months ago
Trashing hotel rooms, sleeping with groupies and getting high on drugs – the showbiz lifestyles of top musicians are often a playground of high drama. No wonder then that Hollywood likes to come a-calling, taking these stories of musical magic and giving them the Tinseltown treatment. And it’s not just that shining moment when the star is top of the charts that attracts the attention, rather the whole rocky road rich with humble beginnings, traumatic setbacks and painful sacrifices. Sometimes there’s a happy ending, but often there’s not. It’s about the journey, going from zero to hero and bringing music to the masses through an individual gift.
