Feature Archives

Aspyr: The studio answering the industry's port of call

by Aaron Potter | Aug 02, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Aspyr delves into the secret of a successful video game port

Bullet Train interview: David Leitch and Kelly McCormick on their new action blockbuster

by Lauren Miles | Aug 02, 2022 | Feature, News

Bullet Train director David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick talk action scenes, inspirations and Thomas The Tank Engine. ...

In a shifting distribution landscape, does Hollywood still need China?

by Dan Cooper | Aug 01, 2022 | Feature, News

Once considered as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, here in 2022 does Hollywood need, or even want Chinese box office dollars?...

How to write a playtest survey

by Steve Bromley | Jul 29, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Surveys can help you understand and measure players’ thoughts, resulting in better video games. Here’s how to get started

James McAvoy, Common and Angelina Jolie in Wanted

Unmade Sequels: what happened to Wanted 2?

by Jake Godfrey | Jul 29, 2022 | Feature, News

We take a look at sequels that have, at one stage or another, been either in talks or confirmed. This week, it's the sequel to 2008's hyper-kinetic...

Beauty in the barren: Revisiting the world of 2015's Mad Max

by Aaron Potter | Jul 28, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Aaron sets eyes on the fury road, hoping people “witness him” in thus underrated adaptation

What would a Marion Ravenwood spin-off show look like?

by Brendon Connelly | Jul 28, 2022 | Feature, Misc, News

Have you ever wondered what a young Marion Ravenwood show would be like?...

Licence To Kill and James Bond's special relationship with America

by Mark Harrison | Jul 28, 2022 | Feature

Is 1989’s Licence To Kill “too American”? We revisit Timothy Dalton’s superior second outing as 007 and ponder a very British franchise’s relations...

Solving Only Murders In The Building - Series 2, Episode 6

by Brendon Connelly | Jul 27, 2022 | Feature, News, Reviews

Only Murders In The Building continues - and here's our spoiler-y sleuthing from the sixth episode of season two, Performance Review....

When physical media takes advantage of the film collector

by John Abbitt | Jul 27, 2022 | Feature, News

In the digital age, we remain fully supportive of owning physical copies of films - but do studios take advantage of fans and collectors?...

Morbid Metal: all you need is a one-person mech army

by Aaron Potter | Jul 27, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Felix Schade discusses his future-set shape-shifting actioner, which gives players their own one-person mech army

Mental health and Wellbeing Matters: dealing with bad news

by Simon Brew | Jul 27, 2022 | Feature

A few words on the days when we get some unpleasant news, and a few ideas on how to immediately deal with it all....

Simulate farming in miniature with Bit Orchard: Animal Valley

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 26, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Tennessee-based developer 2Boone Games explains how he burned the midnight oil to create his tiny farming sim

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Can we ever learn to live with spoilers?

by Daniel Bland | Jul 26, 2022 | Feature, News

Spoilers are nothing new, but they're infesting the world - yet can we ever really learn to live with them?....

Inside Finland's thriving game dev scene

by Jack Yarwood | Jul 25, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

We chart the history of the Finnish game industry and take a look at what its dev scene looks like today.

Why didn’t Mad Max: Fury Road change blockbuster cinema?

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 25, 2022 | Feature, News

2016's Mad Max: Fury Road broke so much new ground for action cinema - and yet nobody appears to have really tried to follow its path....

Madonna, the 1994 film she 'dropped', and the story behind it

by Simon Brew | Jul 25, 2022 | Feature, News

The screenplay to the film Angie was written with Madonna in mind - but she'd leave the project, and two different versions of what happened emerged....

How Tim Burton's Beetlejuice was nearly a very different film

by Lauren Miles | Jul 22, 2022 | Feature, News

1988's Beetlejuice turned out to be a cult classic that supercharged Tim Burton's career - but it was nearly an entirely different film....

Film Quiz Friday: The Heat Is On

by Mark Harrison | Jul 22, 2022 | Feature, News

Grab an ice lolly and turn a fan on for this week’s film quiz, which includes some very hot weather questions....

The Living Daylights, and what Timothy Dalton brings to James Bond

by Mark Harrison | Jul 21, 2022 | Feature, News

Timothy Dalton played 007 in 1987's The Living Daylights, but having turned the role down three times, he insisted upon a back-to-basics James Bond....

Mr Biffo's Gaming History: The long legacy of Spacewar!

by Paul Rose | Jul 20, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Without Spacewar!, odds are games today would look very different. Mr Biffo charts the history of one of gaming’s most celebrated genres.

Solving Only Murders In The Building - Series 2, Episode 5

by Brendon Connelly | Jul 20, 2022 | Feature, News, Reviews

Only Murders In The Building continues - and here's our spoiler-y sleuthing from the fifth episode of season two, The Tell....

Why you shouldn’t be so harsh on Rob Zombie’s The Munsters reboot

by Rachel Charlton-Dailey | Jul 20, 2022 | Feature, News

The first trailer for The Munsters has appeared in the crosshairs of the internet over the last few days - but is that entirely fair? A few thoughts....