Are music biopics Hollywood’s new hitmakers?
by James Harvey | Feb 29, 2024 | Feature
Four Beatles biopics, Sam Mendes? That’s insane – or is the cavalcade of music movies a stroke of genius?...
by James Harvey | Feb 29, 2024 | Feature
Four Beatles biopics, Sam Mendes? That’s insane – or is the cavalcade of music movies a stroke of genius?...
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 28, 2024 | Feature
Dune director Denis Villeneuve sparked some debate when he recently said that “Movies are corrupted by television.” But didn't he have a point, Rya...
by Simon Brew | Feb 28, 2024 | Feature
What films, games and books do you reach for when you've had a tough day? We're talking comfort blanket stuff right here......
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 27, 2024 | Feature, Gaming
Forget E.T. on the Atari 2600: for British computer owners, The Great Space Race was one of the 1980s’ most over-hyped commercial disasters. We take a...
by A J Black | Feb 26, 2024 | Feature
How many films - some classic, some, er, less so - can you get for £35? AJ Black finds out as his plan to build the ultimate DVD and Blu-ray library...
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 23, 2024 | Feature
Characters played by older actors in franchises like Star Wars and Halloween seldom have much fun. Little wonder Linda Hamilton’s had enough…...
by Mark Harrison | Feb 23, 2024 | Feature
How well do you know your alphabet? 30 questions in this week’s film quiz, and several of the answers have only one letter....
by Maria Lattila | Feb 22, 2024 | Feature
After the disastrous launch of Sony’s latest Spider-Man adjacent film, the company really needs Kraven The Hunter to do well. Here’s why.
by Maria Lattila | Feb 21, 2024 | Feature, TV
We delve deeper into the shocking, violent ending of True Detective: Night Country and dissect all those juicy revelations.
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 21, 2024 | Feature
A key sci-fi film of the 1970s, Westworld was made in a matter of months and was almost scrapped before it was released....
by James Harvey | Feb 21, 2024 | Feature, TV
We chat to the star of the Stranger Things play about playing Bob Newby, managing a DJ booth and the Netflix show eight years on....
by Simon Brew | Feb 21, 2024 | Feature
A few thoughts on trying to keep your brain going, when you can't do everything you need - or people want you - to do....
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 20, 2024 | Feature
To this day, David Lynch still regards his 1984 Dune film as a “sow’s ear”. We look back at why the cult film didn’t turn out quite as the directo...
by Sarah Cook | Feb 20, 2024 | Feature
The 1920s wasn't short of romantic cinema - and here are five vintage films well worth seeking out from the era....
by James Harvey | Feb 19, 2024 | Feature
Ahead of the BAFTA and Oscar awards ceremonies, we sat down with Oppenheimer editor Jennifer Lame to ask – how do you edit a film about the end of t...
by James Harvey | Feb 19, 2024 | Feature
With BAFTA success in the rearview mirror, we chat Oppenheimer’s propulsive score with the man who knows it best - composer Ludwig Göransson....
by A J Black | Feb 19, 2024 | Feature
In the 2010s, the web was ablaze with news that Neill Blomkamp was to make Alien 5 - a direct sequel to Aliens. We look at why it never happened......
by James Harvey | Feb 16, 2024 | Feature, TV
We sat down with the star of BBC One's fascinating new drama to chat politics, Port Talbot and TraumaZone....
by Mark Harrison | Feb 16, 2024 | Feature
Like the Bob Marley biopic One Love, some of the answers in this week’s film quiz are the titles of songs as well as movies....
by John Upton | Feb 15, 2024 | Feature
Our voyage through the work of Michael Caine arrives at the 1981 psychological horror, The Hand - the debut of one Oliver Stone....
by Simon Brew | Feb 14, 2024 | Feature
A film about the difficult subject of weight, Your Fat Friend is also a documentary about something much broader and more powerful. Simon explains....
by Simon Brew | Feb 14, 2024 | Feature
In our regular mental health spot, a few words about counselling, but mainly about talking about counselling too....
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 13, 2024 | Feature
The $5m indie drama Blackberry got a bit lost in a 2023 shuffle of product origin story movies. Here’s why you should track down Matt Johnson’s ter...
by James Harvey | Feb 12, 2024 | Feature
Emerald Fennell’s stately home thriller Saltburn made $21m at the box office – and might just be one of the most-seen films of 2023. How the heck did...
by Maria Lattila | Feb 09, 2024 | Feature
We caught up with Sean Durkin, the writer-director behind the critically acclaimed The Iron Claw to unpack the film’s powerful themes.
by Simon Brew | Feb 09, 2024 | Feature
A welcome act of rebellion from IGN points the way to a better way forward for movie journalism: a few thoughts....
by Mark Harrison | Feb 09, 2024 | Feature
As The Iron Claw gives a wrestling dynasty the cinematic treatment, this week’s film quiz covers wrestling and wrestlers in movies....
by A J Black | Feb 09, 2024 | Feature, TV
Flying in the face of the on-demand streaming zeitgeist, TV's Gladiators and Mr Bates prove that linear television is here to stay....
by James Harvey | Feb 08, 2024 | Feature
Inspired by a hilariously bleak true story, Joe Weiland's debut film, Gorka, is a warmly funny ode to British awkwardness....
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 08, 2024 | Feature
With two rather different films out on the same day - American Fiction, Argylle - we ponder cinema's fascination with writers, novelists and...
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 07, 2024 | Feature
For years, it looked as though 1987’s RoboCop would be getting a direct sequel, based on its screenwriters’ decades-old script. We look at the fat...
by Simon Brew | Feb 07, 2024 | Feature
Nothing special in this week's Mental Health column, but it's here anyway. Sometimes, that's the point, right?...