The X-Files | What could Ryan Coogler do with a new series?
by A J Black | Apr 29, 2025 | Feature, TV
As recently announced, Sinners writer and director Ryan Coogler is developing a new series of The X-Files. But what direction might it take?...
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The lost art of the A-list studio production company
by Dan Cooper | Apr 28, 2025 | Feature
In the 1990s, droves of Hollywood A-listers set up in-house production companies at major studios. With the process having largely fallen away, Dan...
Alien: Earth | New teasers unveil more unearthly monsters besides the Xenomorph
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 28, 2025 | Feature, News, TV
A pair of new Alien: Earth teaser trailers show glimpses of "five different lifeforms" - four of them seemingly separate from the Xenomorph....
King Of New York | Trickle-down economics, 90s gangster style
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 28, 2025 | Feature
Being a retrospective of Abel Ferrara’s cult gangster film King Of New York, and what it really says about the gap between rich and poor....
Alien | The birth and curious death of HR Giger’s Space Jockey
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 26, 2025 | Feature, News
To mark Alien Day, we head back to the late 1970s to see how HR Giger designed the Space Jockey - and its strange fate after the film's premiere......
Havoc | Director Gareth Evans on his Netflix action thriller's reshoots (exclusive)
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 25, 2025 | Feature, News
The Raid director Gareth Evans initially finished filming his action thriller Havoc in October 2021. He talks to us about its reshoots and lengthy...
Andor season 2 speaks to a hunger for a deeper, more resonant Star Wars
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 25, 2025 | Feature, News, TV
With spoilers, we look at how Andor season 2 brings a thematic depth to Star Wars that makes its flaws easier to overlook....
Two accountants talk about The Accountant
by James Harvey | Apr 25, 2025 | Feature, News
It’s easy to assume accountants love The Accountant. As The Accountant 2 arrives in cinemas, we asked a pair of them about it....
Film Quiz Friday | It Happened One Night
by Mark Harrison | Apr 25, 2025 | Feature
This week’s film quiz should last you Until Dawn at least – 30 questions, some of them about movies set over one night....
The rise and fall of Hollywood movies in China
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 24, 2025 | Feature, News
At its peak, the cinema market in China was worth hundreds of millions to Hollywood studios. We look at its rise and sudden fall. ...
Neill Blomkamp revisited: Demonic
by A J Black | Apr 23, 2025 | Feature
In the throes of the pandemic, director Neill Blomkamp made the low-budget techno-horror, Demonic. We take a look at a flawed yet intriguing film....
Mental Health Matters | The trans community
by Film Stories | Apr 23, 2025 | Feature
In our weekly spot where we chat mental health, a few words for the trans community after one hell of a week....
The Slipper And The Rose | The story of a forgotten British Cinderella
by Emma Flint | Apr 22, 2025 | Feature
Emma Flint remembers an overlooked Cinderella tale from the 70s, one that played Hollywood at its own game…...
Sinners hits big at box office, so why is the movie industry struggling to cope with that?
by Simon Brew | Apr 22, 2025 | Feature, News
Ryan Coogler's Sinners hits big at the box office, but reporting of its success is coming with no shortage of qualifiers. Some thoughts....
How Sinners became an unlikely ambassador for film on film
by James Harvey | Apr 18, 2025 | Feature, News
Ryan Coogler's Wakanda Forever follow-up has cemented the director as a rare commercial auteur. Here's how Sinners might defy cinema's IP logic....
Film Quiz Friday | Turner And Who?
by Mark Harrison | Apr 18, 2025 | Feature, News
One of this week’s new releases stars Steve Coogan and a penguin, so here’s a film quiz about other actors and their animal co-stars....
Warfare | Is there such a thing as a “neutral” war film?
by Maria Lattila | Apr 17, 2025 | Feature
As Warfare bursts into cinemas, its unique angle to the Iraq war has us wondering if any war film can truly be neutral and apolitical. ...
28 Years Later | Second, gory trailer emerges
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 17, 2025 | Feature
The new trailer for director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland's horror sequel 28 Years Later has more gore, more infected ghouls, and more Rudyard...
Erin Brockovich | Julia Roberts at the top of her game
by A J Black | Apr 17, 2025 | Feature
Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her starring role in Erin Brockovich. As we re-evaluate the cinema of 2000, does it stand the test of time?...
Tom Cruise vs Lilo & Stitch | Summer 2025’s biggest box-office rematch?
by Mark Harrison | Apr 16, 2025 | Feature, News
The new Lilo And Stitch and Mission: Impossible films both open on the same weekend. But Tom Cruise has met Stitch at the box office before…...
First, Netflix destroyed regular TV. Now it's becoming it.
by Maria Lattila | Apr 16, 2025 | Feature, News, TV
Netflix was once thought to have killed regular TV, but these days the streaming service is starting to resemble a plain, old terrestrial channel....
Hudson Hawk | Revisiting Bruce Willis's oddball classic
by Mark Searby | Apr 15, 2025 | Feature
Mark Searby looks back at an infamous Hollywood flop, Hudson Hawk, that's gradually built its audience over the last 80 years....
Every Pedro Pascal movie currently on the way
by Maria Lattila | Apr 15, 2025 | Feature, News
The internet's handsome dad has a very full diary at the moment, and it can be a struggle to keep up. Here's what Pedro Pascal has upcoming...
Training Day | In Alonzo Harris, Denzel Washington gave us one of the great screen villains
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 14, 2025 | Feature
The 2001 thriller Training Day features what might be the 21st century’s first truly great villain: Denzel Washington’s Alonzo Harris....
Black Mirror series 7 | The retro Britsoft videogame stylings of Plaything
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 11, 2025 | Feature, Gaming, TV
A follow-up to Bandersnatch, Black Mirror series 7 episode, Plaything, might be Charlie Brooker’s most autobiographical story yet....
Film Quiz Friday | Fully Booked
by Mark Harrison | Apr 11, 2025 | Feature
This week’s film quiz takes a leaf out of several different books featured in movies – 30 questions, off you go......
The Exorcist | The quiet moments that make it a horror classic
by A J Black | Apr 10, 2025 | Feature
Amid the spinning heads and pea soup, it's the quiet moments that make William Friedkin's The Exorcist a masterpiece of horror....
The White Lotus season 3 seems to misunderstand the show's appeal
by Maria Lattila | Apr 09, 2025 | Feature, News, TV
HBO’s The White Lotus finished its third season, but did it offer anything new or exciting? Some thoughts…...
The 1980s films of Michael Caine | Sweet Liberty (1986)
by John Upton | Apr 09, 2025 | Feature, News
After a couple of iffy choices earlier in the decade, Michael Caine made the surprisingly sweet and enjoyable comedy, Sweet Liberty in 1986. We take a...
Mental Health Matters | Brain fog
by Sarah Myers | Apr 09, 2025 | Feature
In our weekly mental health spot, a few words on the challenges of brain fog, and trying to cope with it. More right here....
Tubi UK | The 35 best cult and genre films available to watch for free
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 08, 2025 | Feature, News
Now updated for April 2025, here’s our pick of 35 genre films - horror, action, sci-fi and more - you can watch for free on Tubi UK....
A Minecraft Movie, and why the videogame adaptation curse never existed
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 08, 2025 | Feature, Gaming, News
Warner Bros has landed an unexpectedly huge hit with A Minecraft Movie. But then, videogame adaptations have long attracted sizeable audiences…...
