We don’t talk enough about futuristic prison movies
by Simon Brew | Feb 07, 2022 | Feature, News
Fortress, No Escape, Lockout, Escape Plan: the futuristic prison movie is long overdue a lot more love, argues Simon....
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Disney's Dinosaur, and how its origins go back to RoboCop
by Brendon Connelly | Feb 07, 2022 | Feature
Disney's Dinosaur cost the studio over $100m to make - but was actually a film that was conceived on the set of RoboCop, and pitched by the team...
Film Quiz Friday: Music By John Williams
by Mark Harrison | Feb 04, 2022 | Feature, News
Ready for a symphony of random movie trivia? This week’s film quiz covers the works of the mighty John Williams....
100 British Movie Podcasts of the Week Later...
by Em McGowan | Feb 04, 2022 | Feature
It's the 100th edition of our movie podcast recommendation of the week podcast - and we've been celebrating....
Hoplegs: an indie game born on Twitch
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 02, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Previews
Developer Kevin Andersson explains how an idea dreamed up during a livestream formed the basis for his latest opus
Keeping Score: the growing popularity of the film soundtrack
by Kevin Haney | Feb 02, 2022 | Feature, News
Kevin Haney on his lifelong love of film scores, and how they’ve gone from the quiet corner of the record shop to something a whole lot more....
The secret stories behind Sesame Street
by Brendon Connelly | Feb 02, 2022 | Feature, News
The story behind Sesame Street coming to life is told in a new documentary, and we've been chatting to some of the people behind it....
Mental Health & Wellbeing Matters: when you're stuck in an unhappy workplace
by Simon Brew | Feb 02, 2022 | Feature
A few words and thoughts for those stuck in a job that's making them miserable, in our regular mental health and wellbeing spot....
Groundhog Play: analysing the stories in time-loop games
by Antony de Fault | Feb 01, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
Why have time-loop games like Deathloop captured devs’ imaginations, and what challenges and opportunities do they present? Antony takes a closer look
Snow White vs the BBFC – the Disney classic that was deemed too scary for under-16s
by Mark Harrison | Feb 01, 2022 | Feature, News
It took 50 years for Disney’s Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs to be granted a U certificate - here’s the story of the film’s unexpected battles with...
Celebrating The Addams Family’s Thing: one of the best visual effects of the 1990s
by Simon Brew | Feb 01, 2022 | Feature, News
The character of Thing in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values might just be the least-dated effects work of 1990s cinema....
Kevin Costner, a return to directing, and fighting to get things made
by Simon Brew | Jan 31, 2022 | Feature, News
Kevin Costner is back in a familiar position with his upcoming western Horizon: battling to make the kind of movie Hollywood's not really touching...
Mass, and the continued problem with movie awards
by Simon Brew | Jan 28, 2022 | Feature, News
The tiny release that the superb movie Mass is getting also demonstrates the growing problem with movie awards: a few thoughts....
Film Quiz Friday: Double Trouble!
by Mark Harrison | Jan 28, 2022 | Feature, News
Here's this week’s film quiz, with 30 questions on topics such as Oscar acceptance speeches, supervillains’ cats, and movies whose titles rhyme....
British movie podcast of the week: Girly Movie Night
by Em McGowan | Jan 28, 2022 | Feature
Our movie podcast recommendation of the week is a relatively new one, that's already carving out its niche: it's Girly Movie Night....
Exploring the music of the Superman movies
by Mark Harrison | Jan 27, 2022 | Feature, News
Is it the music that makes Superman soar? We explore the stories behind the scores, how they've changed, and how they've stayed the same....
Remembering the work of Derek Jarman
by Rob Daniel | Jan 26, 2022 | Feature, News
In what would have been his 80th year, Manchester’s HOME is showcasing a major retrospective of Derek Jarman's screen work....
Mental Health & Wellbeing Matters: walking away from passive aggression
by Simon Brew | Jan 26, 2022 | Feature
In our spot on the site where we chat about mental health and wellbeing, a few words on the people who might be slowly chipping away at you....
2005's Pride & Prejudice and the fuss over its bonus ending
by Mark Harrison | Jan 25, 2022 | Feature, News
Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice changed its final scene after UK test screenings - yet it was reinstated for an e...
Designing town squares for video games
by Konstantinos Dimopoulos | Jan 24, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
How to approach the design and history of the open-air, fascinating hearts of civic life
The quiet death of Fantastic Four 3
by Simon Brew | Jan 24, 2022 | Feature, News
The run of Fantastic Four movies in the 2000s was at least supposed to have a third film - but a lot changed following Rise Of The Silver Surfer....
Surveying the serene skateboarding scene
by Aaron Potter | Jan 21, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
We chat to the indie developers who’ve explored the tranquil side of skateboarding
Star Trek: Nemesis, and when salary negotiations went public
by Simon Brew | Jan 21, 2022 | Feature, News
Paramount wanted Star Trek: Nemesis to come in for less money than its predecessor - but its strong-arm negotiations wouldn't go down well....
Film Quiz Friday: Best of Five?
by Mark Harrison | Jan 21, 2022 | Feature, News
With Scream (5cream?) in cinemas, this week’s film quiz tests your knowledge of fifth instalments of franchises, along with various other movie t...
British movie podcast of the week: Don't You Want Me?
by Em McGowan | Jan 21, 2022 | Feature
Our podcast recommendation of the week has a few words about relationships included: here's what Don't You Want Me is worth a listen....
Re-playing Mass Effect 2: Life and Solus
by Ian Dransfield | Jan 19, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
Ian's starting to feel the grind with the Legendary Edition
Mental Health & Wellbeing Matters: sleeping, and 'worry time'
by Simon Stothard | Jan 19, 2022 | Feature
A few words on dealing with worries, not least when they spring up in the middle of the night and try to stop us sleeping....
Remembering Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden, and its pioneering wall jump
by Ryan Lambie | Jan 18, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
Later games refined it, but Tecmo’s action-platformer first popularised the physical freedom of the wall jump
Jared Leto, award nominations, and self doubt in writing
by Simon Brew | Jan 18, 2022 | Feature, News
It can be tricky writing about film, when your views don't seem to fit the hive mind: a few thoughts, not least on how to find some self-belief....
Old movies: a look at the original Nightmare Alley
by Sarah Cook | Jan 18, 2022 | Feature, News
As Guillermo del Toro's new take on Nightmare Alley heads to UK cinemas, we've been digging into the 1947 take on the same story....
Digital Love - the video games tasked with tenderness
by Dan Cooper | Jan 17, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
For a medium intent on proving itself as an art form, how has gaming handled that most grown-up aspect of human relationships: the romance?
Apocalypse now: the classic sci-fi films that predicted the future
by Rob Daniel | Jan 17, 2022 | Feature, News
How films such as Soylent Green, Children Of Men and Idiocracy are feeling just a little bit on the nose in the current world....
