
The secret world of location scouts
by Dan Cooper | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature
Film Stories chats to three location professionals about just what it takes to find and secure the backdrops to some of cinema’s most magical sce...
by Dan Cooper | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature
Film Stories chats to three location professionals about just what it takes to find and secure the backdrops to some of cinema’s most magical sce...
by Simon Brew | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature
Director James Hawes talks about the challenge of bringing an extraordinary – and true – story to the screen in One Life....
by James Harvey | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature
Architect-turned filmmaker Kibwe Tavares talks us through The Kitchen – the most exciting British sci-fi of 2024. ...
by Simon Brew | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature, Interviews
Steven Knight exclusively talks to Film Stories about his dream film studio in Birmingham – and the upcoming Peaky Blinders film…...
by Lauren Miles | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature, Interviews, News
We chat to writer-directors Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping about the feature-length adaptation of their own short film, Femme....
by Mark Harrison | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature, News
Remember when they used to make animated series out of any hit franchise going? Mark Harrison does…...
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature
In 2018, British videogame company Rebellion joined the film and TV business. Film Stories got a guided tour of its Didcot studio - and met its...
by Sarah Myers | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature
A few thoughts on the weeks of festive build-up, and the pressure that seems to go with them, in our latest mental health chat....
by A J Black | Nov 26, 2024 | Feature
It may be set in Ancient Rome, but like its predecessor, Gladiator II says a lot about the current state of democracy, AJ writes....
by James Harvey | Nov 26, 2024 | Feature, News
Moana 2 star Dwayne Johnson has advocated strange behaviour in public again, and we had some thoughts. Here's when it's okay to sing in the cinema......
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 25, 2024 | Feature, Gaming, News
From Grease in a brawler to Kindergarten Cop in a classic survival horror, movies had a habit of unexpectedly popping up in 80s and 90s videogames....
by James Harvey | Nov 22, 2024 | Feature, News
With Jon M Chu's toe-tapping Wicked film in cinemas now, why is its two-part status getting us all riled up?...
by Simon Brew | Nov 22, 2024 | Feature, News
In an era where directors can revisit their older films and recut them, William Shatner on why he won't touch Star Trek V again....
by Mark Harrison | Nov 22, 2024 | Feature, News
Something Wicked this way comes in this week’s film quiz, with 30 all-new film-related questions, some of them about witchy business......
by James Harvey | Nov 21, 2024 | Feature, News
With Guillermo Del Toro apparently the latest to eke a theatrical release from the streamer, is Netflix’s fear of the big screen coming back to h...
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 21, 2024 | Feature, News, Reviews
A set of AI-generated adverts from The Coca-Cola Company could point the way to a grim future of soulless, synthesised film remakes. Yay!...
by Maria Lattila | Nov 21, 2024 | Feature, News
James Gunn promises more R-rated movies from DC Studios, prompting the question: is this the future of superhero cinema?...
by Sarah Myers | Nov 20, 2024 | Feature
Is it really a bad thing to once in a while, stop to help yourself? A few thoughts in this week's mental health spot....
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 19, 2024 | Feature, News
Writer-director Damien Mc Carthy’s Oddity didn’t have the splashy marketing of, say, Longlegs, but it’s a corking horror you don’t want to miss....
by Maria Lattila | Nov 18, 2024 | Feature
As horror films get gorier and more inventive with how the human body can be slashed, hacked and destroyed, we ask the question: what makes for a...
by James Harvey | Nov 15, 2024 | Feature, News
In Gladiator II, all is not well in the world's largest military superpower. We couldn't possibly comment......
by Mark Harrison | Nov 15, 2024 | Feature
This week’s film quiz includes questions about screwball comedies, movie monsters, and the films of Denzel Washington....
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 14, 2024 | Feature, News
We chat to the star of Gladiator II, Paul Mescal, about working with Denzel Washington, and adapting to Ridley Scott’s tendency to shoot things in a c...
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 13, 2024 | Feature, News
Director Ridley Scott talks to us about Gladiator II, his favourite tennis documentary, baboons and an awful lot more....
by Sarah Myers | Nov 13, 2024 | Feature
TikTok, music, reality TV and more: in this week's mental health chat, some words about things people tend to judge us for liking....
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 12, 2024 | Feature, News
In 1975, George Kennedy starred in an unusual revenge thriller in which AI was used to catch the bad guys. A look back at The ‘Human’ Factor:...
by James Harvey | Nov 08, 2024 | Feature, News
From Garth Marenghi to The Mighty Boosh, Paddington’s blockbuster success stands on a TV comedy golden age and the early work of Paul King....
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 08, 2024 | Feature, News
With The Mandalorian And Grogu still over a year away, a look at some of the Star Wars films Lucasfilm hasn’t made since 2019....
by Simon Brew | Nov 08, 2024 | Feature, News
Sigourney Weaver and David Duchovny's star power wasn't enough to stop one of Jake Kasdan's movies all but disappearing for a while....
by Mark Harrison | Nov 08, 2024 | Feature
With Paddington In Peru, this week’s 30-question film quiz explores some other movie franchises that went on tour in their sequels…...
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 08, 2024 | Feature, News
Written and directed by Michael Crichton, the sci-fi thriller Runaway had its thunder stolen by another killer robot movie in 1984: The Terminator....
by James Harvey | Nov 07, 2024 | Feature, News
Jake Kasdan's festive punch-up is the latest Christmas film to arrive in cinemas - but could it be one of the last?...