The meaning of a massacre: GTA V and protest art
by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell | Jul 24, 2020 | Feature, Gaming
How Joseph DeLappe sought to tackle America’s paralysis over gun violence by turning Grand Theft Auto into protest art
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The big UK movie premieres that didn't take place in Leicester Square
by Simon Brew | Jul 24, 2020 | Feature
Remembering the times when George Clooney was sent to Birmingham, and Val Kilmer was shuttled up to Leicester for UK movie premieres....
Film Quiz Friday: the Jeffrey Lebowski edition
by Mark Harrison | Jul 24, 2020 | Feature
What happens when two very different movies happen to share a title? You get a round in this week’s Friday film quiz, that’s what....
British movie podcast of the week: All The Right Movies
by Em McGowan | Jul 24, 2020 | Feature
Our latest independent UK movie podcast recommendation? Here's why All The Right Movies is worth treating your eardrums to....
The behind the scenes battles of Cloud Atlas
by Mark Harrison | Jul 23, 2020 | Feature
Co-directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas is arguably the most ambitious film of this century, but it had an uphill struggle to get...
Why 1980’s Stir Crazy remained significant
by Simon Brew | Jul 23, 2020 | Feature
Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder scored one of their biggest hits with Stir Crazy - and the film set a record that wouldn't be broken for some time....
Talking to computers, for game writers
by Antony de Fault | Jul 22, 2020 | Feature, Gaming
Most potential video game writers lack the building blocks of interactive storytelling. Let’s change that
Wellbeing Matters: Summer Break
by Jane Roberts | Jul 22, 2020 | Feature
Our weekly slot on the site where we chat about mental health and wellbeing, and as we head into our summer break, a natter about how things have...
Total Knightmare: the perils of adapting video games for TV
by Aaron Potter | Jul 21, 2020 | Feature, Gaming
The creators of Knightmare and Last Commander describe the tricky process of introducing video game elements to television shows
The lost Doctor Who movies
by Alex Westthorp | Jul 21, 2020 | Feature
Since the late 1960s, there have been many attempts to bring Doctor Who back to the big screen - and some got a little closer than others....
Guess the film from its 1980s computer game tie-in!
by Dan Cooper | Jul 21, 2020 | Feature, Video
Here's a test for you: identify the popular movie, purely off the back of how its 1980s computer game version looked....
The Crow: City Of Angels and the lost fan edit
by John Abbitt | Jul 20, 2020 | Feature
How a fan re-edit became the closest cut of The Crow: City Of Angels to how director Tim Pope envisaged the film - and that's according to Pope...
Willow: how the studio overplayed its hand trying to sell the film into cinemas
by Simon Brew | Jul 20, 2020 | Feature, News
Even George Lucas' name couldn't persuade cinema owners of the 1980s to give Willow the run its parent studio wanted....
The history of space games - part 2: 2000 - 20XX
by Ian Dransfield | Jul 17, 2020 | Feature, Gaming
The second part of a potted look at the vast, all-encompassing history of gaming’s oldest genre: space. Is space a genre? Still no idea.
How the DVD and Blu-ray market is facing a very tricky winter
by Simon Brew | Jul 17, 2020 | Feature
It's no secret that physical media has been facing tough times - and it's going to be up to catalogue releases more than ever come the end of the...
Film Quiz Fridays: To the Moon and Back!
by Mark Harrison | Jul 17, 2020 | Feature
Check your left ear, right ear, and final frontier for a Friday film quiz that takes in movie music, sound effects, and space exploration on the big...
British movie podcast of the week: A Very British Horror
by Em McGowan | Jul 17, 2020 | Feature
Each week, we recommend an independent UK film podcast that's well worth checking out: this one, with a horror tinge and a half to it....
The history of space games - part 1: 1961 - 1999
by Ian Dransfield | Jul 16, 2020 | Feature, Gaming
A potted look at the vast, all-encompassing history of gaming’s oldest genre: space. Is space a genre? No idea.
When The Warriors and The Wanderers did battle at the box office
by Oliver Campbell | Jul 16, 2020 | Feature
A look back at the race to get the first New York gang film of 1979 to the big screen - and it turns out there was a lot of competition....
How Money Train ended up with one of the biggest movie sets of all time
by Simon Brew | Jul 15, 2020 | Feature
The reunion of Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson for Money Train wasn't supposed to end up with a record-breaking movie set - but then logistics got...
Wellbeing Matters: keeping your body going in a pandemic
by Jane Roberts | Jul 15, 2020 | Feature
In our weekly spot where we chat about mental health and wellbeing, a few words on the impact on the body for the less able during lockdown....
Tenet: might it be time to abandon the simultaneous global release?
by Simon Brew | Jul 14, 2020 | Feature, News
As California cinemas close their doors for the foreseeable future, the idea of a global film release seems even further away - and that may have...
TRON 3: where can the franchise go next?
by Dan Cooper | Jul 13, 2020 | Feature
It finally looks as though TRON 3 has taken a new step forward - and we've been examining the story so far, and the future path for the franchise....
The first British feature to be made using British Sign Language
by Sarah Philip | Jul 13, 2020 | Feature
Sarah uncovers the story of a new movie called Retreat, that's going to be the first British film with a deaf director and an all-deaf cast....
X-Men: The New Mutants and the story of its many delays
by Mark Harrison | Jul 10, 2020 | Feature
Currently scheduled for an August 2020 release, The New Mutants will mark the end of Fox’s X-Men movies. - we take a look at the film’s long jou...
Film Quiz Fridays: The Movie Pub Crawl - 30 trivia questions
by Mark Harrison | Jul 10, 2020 | Feature, News
The weekend’s here and that means it’s time for another film quiz - this week’s trivial pursuit charts cinema’s bars, pubs, and clubs, in between...
British movie podcast of the week: Diminishing Returns
by Em McGowan | Jul 10, 2020 | Feature
Each week we highlight an independent UK movie podcast we reckon you should check out - and Diminishing Returns very much fits that bill....
Football Manager 2020: 30 years of play
by Ian Dransfield | Jul 09, 2020 | Feature, Gaming
It’s a day ending with ‘day’, so Ian’s playing Football Manager 2020
The battle to get End Of Days made for the end of 1999
by Simon Brew | Jul 08, 2020 | Feature
End Of Days marked Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to the movies after more than a year away - but it was up against one hell of an immovable deadline...
Wellbeing Matters: anxiety in a pandemic
by Jane Roberts | Jul 08, 2020 | Feature
In our weekly spot where we chat about things to do with mental health and general wellbeing, a few words about anxiety in these particularly taxing...
James Cameron's Aliens: finding the best cut of the film
by Chris Chapman | Jul 07, 2020 | Feature
How one man found his favourite cut of James Cameron's Aliens lying half-way between the theatrical release and the Special Edition....
Missing in action: the lost Timothy Dalton James Bond movie
by Mark Harrison | Jul 07, 2020 | Feature
Timothy Dalton was never supposed to make just two Bond films, so what did we lose when he left the 007 role with one film still on his contract? We...
