Ra, ra, Timestalk-ar | Is 2024 the year of bad romance?
by James Harvey | Oct 11, 2024 | Feature, News
Timestalker, Joker, and Baby Reindeer all deal with the nasty side of romantic entanglement - is this the year of the bad romance?...
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Agatha All Along | Teen’s identity is finally revealed, but what does that mean for the MCU?
by Maria Lattila | Oct 11, 2024 | Feature, News, TV
Agatha All Along has finally revealed who Joe Locke’s Teen really is, and we suspect there might be repercussions. ...
Film Quiz Friday | The "Toyetic" Edition
by Mark Harrison | Oct 11, 2024 | Feature
This week’s film quiz is more than meets the eye, with questions about Transformers and other movies based on toys and games....
Until Dawn | Videogame remaster has a rough start while film adaptation wraps filming
by Maria Lattila | Oct 10, 2024 | Feature, Gaming, News
The remastered version of Supermassive Games’ horror game Until Dawn has failed to meet expectations, but will the film do any better? ...
Forbidden Planet | Screenwriter J Michael Straczynski on James Cameron's unmade sci-fi movie
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 10, 2024 | Feature, News
Screenwriter J Michael Straczynski says that the combination of Avatar and a "miffed" studio led to the shelving of a new, James Cameron-directed...
Joker: Folie à Deux | Let’s dissect that shocking ending
by Maria Lattila | Oct 10, 2024 | Feature, News
The ending of Joker: Folie à Deux has become quite controversial, so let’s dive in, shall we?...
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder interview | Filmmakers Nicola and Anthony Caulfield on their new ZX Spectrum documentary
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 10, 2024 | Feature, Gaming, Interviews, News
"The microchip revolution was our rock and roll." Nicola and Anthony Caulfield tell us about their new feature-length ZX Spectrum documentary, The...
Joker 2 | Here comes the fallout, as blame game begins
by Simon Brew | Oct 09, 2024 | Feature, News
The box office returns for Joker 2 - Joker: Folie A Deux - have come in short, and already, blame appears to be apportioned. A few thoughts....
Mental Health Matters | Dealing with good news
by Sarah Myers | Oct 09, 2024 | Feature
When you're naturally not the kind of person to celebrate something good, how do you give yourself permission to do so?...
The Last Voyage Of The Demeter | The mystery of its missing UK release
by Simon Brew | Oct 08, 2024 | Feature, News
Dracula-adjacent horror The Last Voyage Of The Demeter is only just getting a cinema screening in the UK, over a year after it screened into in the...
Alien: Isolation 2 | Sequel to 2014's classic space anxiety simulator announced
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 08, 2024 | Feature, Gaming, News
To mark the original's 10th anniversary, developer Creative Assembly has announced space horror sequel Alien: Isolation 2....
Withnail & I | The heartbreak that lies beneath its quotable dialogue
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 08, 2024 | Feature
Bruce Robinson’s 1987 comedy-drama is one of the most quotable British films of all time. But there are some deeper, heartbreaking undercurrents in W...
Is fandom now controlling Hollywood’s biggest franchises?
by Maria Lattila | Oct 07, 2024 | Feature
If a new report's accurate, then studios are placing more and more value on the opinions of a small group of fans. A few words on toxic fandom and...
Stanley Kubrick | 2001: A Space Odyssey and its original opening sequence
by A J Black | Oct 07, 2024 | Feature
Director Stanley Kubrick originally had a very different opening in mind for 2001: A Space Odyssey. We head back to the early days of his 1968 sci-fi...
Ciné-Real | The Hackney film club that only presents on 16mm
by James Harvey | Oct 04, 2024 | Feature
Ciné-Real at the Castle Cinema is the only UK film club that screens exclusively on 16mm stock. Our friends at Great Big Story have made a short...
All the Disney+ films and TV shows that have been deleted from the service
by Lauren Miles | Oct 04, 2024 | Feature
It's a sad reality that streaming services have begun to delete original films and shows from their platforms - here's everything that's disappeared...
Is Joker: Folie à Deux a musical - and why do we care?
by James Harvey | Oct 04, 2024 | Feature, News
Joker: Folie à Deux might have a bunch of characters singing in it, but does that make it a musical? Short answer: yes. Find the long one below......
Film Quiz Friday | Dynamic Duos
by Mark Harrison | Oct 04, 2024 | Feature, News
The new Todd Phillips film is about a pair of Jokers and this week’s film quiz focuses on other movie duos....
The Big Lebowski 1998 press conference gloriously highlights the futility of press conferences
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 03, 2024 | Feature, News
Berlin, 1998. John Goodman and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen sat down for a press conference to promote The Big Lebowski. Good lord is it awkward....
Killer Heat and the return of the acceptable mid-budget thriller
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 03, 2024 | Feature
Rather than try to rewrite the thriller rulebook, Prime Video mystery Killer Heat is content to be just fine - which is far from a bad thing....
We are losing our battle with all that is personal and real | Google, and the future of writing about film
by Simon Brew | Oct 02, 2024 | Feature, News
Changes to the way Google returns its search results are seeing websites downsizing and shutting, and writers losing their jobs. A few thoughts....
Mental Health Matters | 'Glimmers'
by Sarah Myers | Oct 02, 2024 | Feature
A few words on finding micro-moments of happiness, otherwise known as glimmers, in our weekly mental health chat....
Hellboy: The Crooked Man | How the dwindling of home media has affected a cult comic book franchise
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 01, 2024 | Feature, News
Hellboy’s back in cinemas with The Crooked Man, but its budget is drastically reduced from its 2000s heyday. A shrinking home video market may be t...
The Deadpool And Wolverine debate | Cinema’s saviour, or scraping the barrel?
by Simon Brew | Sep 30, 2024 | Feature, News
Deadpool And Wolverine gave cinema a massive live action hit just when it needed it. But now what? A few thoughts on Marvel's huge movie success....
What can I watch if I don’t like Megalopolis?
by James Harvey | Sep 27, 2024 | Feature
Francis Ford Coppola’s divisive epic hits UK cinemas today – but if it isn’t your cup of tea, why isn’t there anything on for you?...
James Cameron, Brian Sewell and Judi Dench: a weird week in AI, reviewed
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 27, 2024 | Feature, News
Previously a skeptic, James Cameron is now a Stability board member. Plus: fake Keir Starmer and Brian Sewell. We review a weird week in AI....
Film Quiz Friday | Coppola Questions
by Mark Harrison | Sep 27, 2024 | Feature
As Megalopolis arrives in UK cinemas, this week’s film quiz focuses on some of Francis Ford Coppola’s other movies....
Whatever happened to RoboCop Returns?
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 26, 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...
Leave 'em hanging | When a teased sequel never happens
by Dan Cooper | Sep 26, 2024 | Feature
We take a look at the Hollywood art of the sequel tease – not least when the movie being teased doesn’t happen…...
Mental Health Matters | Grieving differently
by Sarah Myers | Sep 25, 2024 | Feature
Sarah has a few words to say on processing difficult grief, and why there's not one way that suits all. Over to her......
Lost | Coming from Nowhere - exploring the show's original pilot concept
by A J Black | Sep 24, 2024 | Feature, TV
To mark the 20th anniversary of Lost, we look back at screenwriter Jeffrey Lieber's unused pilot script, Nowhere, and how it informed the hit show....
The Terminator | What more can be done with a franchise that keeps ignoring itself?
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 23, 2024 | Feature
As James Cameron announces that any future Terminator film will ‘jettison everything’ that came before, we wonder whether it’s a case of franc...
