Project Power review: another super-powered fix from Netflix
by Mark Harrison | Aug 17, 2020 | Reviews
Hot on the heels of The Old Guard, Project Power is Netflix’s second super-powered action movie of the summer - here’s our review. I...
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Film Quiz Friday: Ask The Audience!
by Mark Harrison | Aug 14, 2020 | Feature
Can you answer a question with a question? You can with this week’s Friday film quiz, which covers quizzical movie titles and some other trivial g...
The stories behind Hollywood studios’ opening fanfares
by Mark Harrison | Aug 11, 2020 | Feature
From Fox to Universal, most of the major Hollywood studios have got an opening fanfare - but where do they all come from? Glad you asked....
Film Quiz Friday: Quizness As Usual
by Mark Harrison | Aug 07, 2020 | Feature
Put your thinking cap and your quizzing trousers back on for another helping of Friday film trivia, including a whole bunch of 'un'-titled movies....
Summerland review: a spirited magical-realist drama
by Mark Harrison | Aug 03, 2020 | Reviews
Gemma Arterton’s latest period drama is a picture-postcard of a film on paper, but far more in spirit - here’s our review of Summerland....
Film Quiz Friday: the Jeffrey Lebowski edition
by Mark Harrison | Jul 24, 2020 | Feature
What happens when two very different movies happen to share a title? You get a round in this week’s Friday film quiz, that’s what....
The behind the scenes battles of Cloud Atlas
by Mark Harrison | Jul 23, 2020 | Feature
Co-directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas is arguably the most ambitious film of this century, but it had an uphill struggle to get...
Film Quiz Fridays: To the Moon and Back!
by Mark Harrison | Jul 17, 2020 | Feature
Check your left ear, right ear, and final frontier for a Friday film quiz that takes in movie music, sound effects, and space exploration on the big...
The Old Guard review: a lively and engaging Netflix superhero movie
by Mark Harrison | Jul 13, 2020 | News, Reviews
Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne front a team of immortal soldiers of fortune in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Old Guard, a possible franchise-starter f...
Greyhound review: a pared-down Tom Hanks WW2 thriller
by Mark Harrison | Jul 13, 2020 | News, Reviews
Tom Hanks writes and stars in Greyhound, a short, sharp, and single-minded suspense thriller that’s as brisk as its title suggests - here's our r...
X-Men: The New Mutants and the story of its many delays
by Mark Harrison | Jul 10, 2020 | Feature
Currently scheduled for an August 2020 release, The New Mutants will mark the end of Fox’s X-Men movies. - we take a look at the film’s long jou...
Film Quiz Fridays: The Movie Pub Crawl - 30 trivia questions
by Mark Harrison | Jul 10, 2020 | Feature, News
The weekend’s here and that means it’s time for another film quiz - this week’s trivial pursuit charts cinema’s bars, pubs, and clubs, in between...
Missing in action: the lost Timothy Dalton James Bond movie
by Mark Harrison | Jul 07, 2020 | Feature
Timothy Dalton was never supposed to make just two Bond films, so what did we lose when he left the 007 role with one film still on his contract? We...
Film Quiz Fridays: Big Willie Style!
by Mark Harrison | Jul 03, 2020 | Feature
With pubs re-opening but regular pub quizzes no closer to returning, we’ve got your weekly fix of film questions right here, including a round on t...
Celebrating the music of the Back To The Future trilogy
by Mark Harrison | Jul 02, 2020 | Feature
We look at the role of music in the Back To The Future movies, where the 1950s is another planet but 1980s pop songs reign eternal....
Film Quiz Friday: Shark Week!
by Mark Harrison | Jun 26, 2020 | Feature
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, here are three more rounds of Friday film quizness, including sharks, evil exes, and an...
The Matrix Revolutions and its groundbreaking “Zero Hour” global release
by Mark Harrison | Jun 24, 2020 | Feature
The third Matrix movie’s Zero Hour premiere was an early example of a day-and-date global release for a major studio movie - we look back on Warner B...
Film Quiz Friday: the Big Screen to Small Screen edition
by Mark Harrison | Jun 19, 2020 | Feature
Who was The Bourne Lazenby? When did Hollywood first flush the loo? And most importantly, what’s on the telly? It’s time for another Friday film qui...
Artemis Fowl, Die Hard, and Disney’s missed opportunity
by Mark Harrison | Jun 17, 2020 | Feature
Originally billed as “Die Hard with fairies”, Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl has been ripe for a film adaptation for almost 20 years - yet things didn'...
Film Quiz Friday: Famous Last Words...
by Mark Harrison | Jun 12, 2020 | Feature
Dolly back your deckchair in astonishment! It’s time for another Friday film quiz, and some of the questions in this week’s selection come from the...
The unproduced film projects of Peter Jackson
by Mark Harrison | Jun 11, 2020 | Feature
We’ve been looking at the stories behind Peter Jackson’s unproduced films, from his Nightmare On Elm Street sequel to the long-awaited Tintin 2....
Film Quiz Friday: Blood And Ice Cream edition
by Mark Harrison | Jun 05, 2020 | Feature
How’s this for a slice of fried gold? This week’s film quiz covers Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End, along with the usual mix of movie...
The High Note review - an appealing workplace drama remix
by Mark Harrison | Jun 01, 2020 | Reviews
Late Night director Nisha Ganatra shifts tempo with The High Note, an easy-going comedy-drama starring Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross, now...
Film Quiz Friday: 30 questions, cover to cover
by Mark Harrison | May 29, 2020 | Feature
How well do you know the work of our Film Stories cover stars to date? Put on your thinking caps and your trivia trousers for another Friday film...
Film Quiz Friday: Whose Tagline Is It Anyway?
by Mark Harrison | May 22, 2020 | Feature
Deep Impact or Armageddon? Just one of the questions you’ll face in this week’s Friday film quiz, the trivia scramble where no one can hear you scr...
The screenplays the Coen brothers wrote but didn't direct
by Mark Harrison | May 20, 2020 | Feature
As Joel and Ethan Coen’s long-gestating Scarface remake finally finds a director, we revisit their writing-only credits for filmmakers like Sam R...
Film Quiz Friday: the Too Many Elvises edition
by Mark Harrison | May 15, 2020 | Feature
It's Friday and that means it's time for some more movie quiz questions! Questions like "What's with all the Elvis questions?", probably....
The King’s Daughter: the lost Pierce Brosnan mermaid movie
by Mark Harrison | May 11, 2020 | Feature
Shelved just weeks before its release in 2015, The King's Daughter is a historical sci-fi romance starring Pierce Brosnan - and it seems to have...
The early producing credits of Michael Douglas: from Cuckoo's Nest to Starman
by Mark Harrison | May 08, 2020 | Feature, News
Once pigeonholed as the TV star son of a screen legend, Michael Douglas had to make his name in movies behind the camera first - and here's how....
Film Quiz Friday: Chris Chris Bang Bang!
by Mark Harrison | May 08, 2020 | Feature, News
It’s almost the weekend, so we’re introducing the Film Stories quiz, a few rounds of movie trivia to test your knowledge or annoy your friends and fam...
Revisiting the genre-twisting thrillers of Gregory Hoblit
by Mark Harrison | May 06, 2020 | Feature
Gregory Hoblit has directed several twisty thrillers, including Primal Fear, Frequency, and Fracture - here’s our look at an underrated and u...
Extraction review – a Netflix actioner with “oof” to spare
by Mark Harrison | Apr 27, 2020 | News, Reviews
In the Russo brothers’ latest film following Avengers: Endgame, mercenary Chris Hemsworth has to kill absolutely everybody - here’s our review of Net...
