
An end of year letter to the readers of Film Stories
by Simon Brew | Dec 23, 2024 | Feature, News
A few words to the brilliant readers of Film Stories, as we come to the end of another year. Thank you so much for supporting us....
by Simon Brew | Dec 23, 2024 | Feature, News
A few words to the brilliant readers of Film Stories, as we come to the end of another year. Thank you so much for supporting us....
by Simon Brew | Dec 23, 2024 | Feature
If the Christmas and New Year period is particularly tough for you, a few words aimed in your direction. Thank you for reading....
by Rob Daniel | Dec 23, 2024 | Feature, News, TV
It's one of the least-liked episodes of the much-loved Only Fools And Horses - but the feature-length A Royal Flush had problems behind the scenes....
by Dan Cooper | Dec 20, 2024 | Feature
The early days of Hollywood saw plucky foley pioneers save audiences from a lifetime of boring sound design and create an art form which continues to...
by Mark Harrison | Dec 20, 2024 | Feature
How good's your memory of 2024 in film? Here's our film quiz of the year, covering the big movies and news stories of the past 12 months…...
by Tim Murray | Dec 19, 2024 | Feature
The Third Man is celebrating its 75th anniversary; to mark the occasion, StudioCanal brought original crew member Angela Allen along for a special...
by Film Stories | Dec 19, 2024 | Feature, News
The $300m Russo brothers Netflix film The Electric State has spent serious money on some things. Wigs very much included....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 19, 2024 | Feature, News
Kraven The Hunter? In 4DX? What could be more exciting? It turns out that ‘extreme sensory cinema’ and anxiety don’t mix…...
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 18, 2024 | Feature
As writer, director, producer, composer and co-star Viggo Mortensen delivers a personal take on the western genre with The Dead Don’t Hurt, Film S...
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 18, 2024 | Feature, News
With an emphasis on the low-budget, the genre-based, daring and imaginative, here’s our pick of the 31 best movies of 2024....
by Sarah Myers | Dec 18, 2024 | Feature
A few thoughts on the week or two ahead, as the world moves into Christmas and New Year mode. All in our Mental Health Matters spot....
by Zoe Dowsett | Dec 17, 2024 | Feature, News
How a Sussex-based community cinema became one of Europe’s most green-friendly arts venues....
by Amy Coop | Dec 17, 2024 | Feature
The granddaughter of Denys N Coop tells the cinematography pioneer's story, from The Third Man to Richard Donner's Superman....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 17, 2024 | Feature, News, TV
Murder, infidelity, gambling, and sinister bed and breakfasts. We rank the stories in Tales Of The Unexpected’s first series…...
by Maria Lattila | Dec 16, 2024 | Feature, News
Skeleton Crew has been warmly received by critics and audiences alike so far. Could the series be exactly what Star Wars needs right now? A few...
by James Harvey | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature, Interviews, News
Alastair Siddons hated making his first film – so he made his psychological teleshopping parody Up The Catalogue a little differently…...
by Stefania Sarrubba | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature, News
All bark, little bite: Nightbitch, and other horror films that don’t hit as hard as their source novels. Spoilers ahead......
by Mark Harrison | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature
Ho ho ho! It’s beginning to look a lot like Film Quiz Friday, so here’s 30 festive movie questions to get you in the Christmas spirit…...
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 12, 2024 | Feature, News
Politics and the apocalypse collide in Rumours - a horror satire that threatens to steal Megalopolis’ crown as 2024’s most eccentric movie....
by Simon Brew | Dec 11, 2024 | Feature, News
IMAX screens might just have given traditional Hollywood studios a way to push back against the power of Netflix. A few thoughts....
by Sarah Myers | Dec 11, 2024 | Feature
Huge trigger warnings for this piece, as our mental health chat this week goes into the topic of suicide....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 10, 2024 | Feature, News
A New Hope and the rest of the Star Wars trilogy may be preserved and pristine, but there’s something wonderfully tactile about the untouched t...
by Simon Brew | Dec 09, 2024 | Feature, News
Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray collectors are often willing to pay top dollar for releases of films - but they still deserve value for money....
by James Harvey | Dec 06, 2024 | Feature, News
In 2024, a film's TV debut is hardly ever an event to remember. Not so this Christmas, when the cinema event of the year might just premiere on the...
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 06, 2024 | Feature, News
Abel Ferrara’s sci-fi horror Body Snatchers was largely overlooked in 1993, but it’s aged remarkably well in the decades since....
by Mark Harrison | Dec 06, 2024 | Feature
Enter the multiverse of mad movie-title mashups in this week’s film quiz, which features 30 questions with answers smashed or unsmashed…...
by John Upton | Dec 05, 2024 | Feature
Is Water, a 1985 comedy from the writers of Porridge, a hidden gem in Michael Caine's long film career? No....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 03, 2024 | Feature, News
A line of dialogue in Alien: Romulus has split opinion for months now. Here's why it might be slightly less incongruous than it first sounds....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 03, 2024 | Feature
Given it’s meant to begin filming in early 2025, the sequel to Fast X seems notably clouded. We take a look at Fast XI’s muddled status....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 02, 2024 | Feature
Between the late 90s and mid-2000s, home releases were often imaginatively packaged and stuffed with extras. We take a look back at the DVD boom…...
by Mark Harrison | Nov 29, 2024 | Feature
Wicked’s road to the screen has been a long one, but has Disney been reacting to it since the musical first hit Broadway?...
by Mark Harrison | Nov 29, 2024 | Feature
How can the same round happen to the same quiz five times? This week’s film quiz tests your knowledge of Disney sequels…...