Video Archives

Gravity: British film or not?

by Simon Brew | Apr 19, 2019 | Video

This week, Dan looks back at the conversation surrounding Gravity's BAFTA win for Outstanding British film in 2014....

Batman Begins, and the search for the best Bat voice

by Simon Brew | Apr 15, 2019 | News, Video

How 2005 reinvented Batman on the big screen - and the hunt for the best Batman voice....

Psycho: how it birthed cinema showtimes

by Simon Brew | Apr 05, 2019 | Video

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic is remembered for lots of things, not least being considered the prototype for the B-movie slasher genre. But being...

Alien & Aliens: how the two films treated Ripley

by Simon Brew | Mar 27, 2019 | Video

In the latest Film Stories video episode, Dan takes a look at the connection between Alien and Aliens, and examines the progressive gender...

The journey from Batman & Robin to Batman Begins

by Simon Brew | Mar 23, 2019 | Video

This week, Dan takes a look at the some of the creative options Warner Bros explored in the wake of 1997's poorly received Batman & Robin....

Sony passed on owning the MCU twice before 2002's Spider-Man

by Simon Brew | Mar 14, 2019 | Video

This week's FILM STORIES YouTube episode - Dan looks at how Sony twice passed up the chance to own almost all of Marvel's entire character roster...

Young Sherlock Holmes: underrated or Amblin's first flop?

by Simon Brew | Mar 09, 2019 | Video

Was Young Sherlock Holmes in its own way a pivotal film for Steven Spielberg's Amblin production company?...

Exploring the Being John Malkovich/Get Out connection

by Simon Brew | Feb 22, 2019 | Video

Dan caps off his look back at Being John Malkovich and Get Out by exploring the strange and fun connection between the two films....

Get Out: when life mirrors art

by Simon Brew | Feb 15, 2019 | Video

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Being John Malkovich? Or Being Tom Cruise?

by Simon Brew | Feb 11, 2019 | Video

The apparently unfilmable Being John Malkovich made it to the big screen in 1999 - but it had quite a journey to get there....

That time Van Damme briefly played the Predator...

by Simon Brew | Feb 01, 2019 | Video

In this week's YouTube episode of Film Stories, we look back at when martial arts icon, Jean Claude Van Damme briefly played the now-iconic role of...

The flawed decisions that led to The Island

by Simon Brew | Jan 25, 2019 | Video

2005's The Island was a financial disappointment that could have cost Dreamworks a potential sale to Paramount....

How Disney sold The Sixth Sense and lost a fortune...

by Simon Brew | Jan 18, 2019 | Misc, Video

As Glass releases, we look back at Bruce Willis and M Night Shyamalan's first collaboration....

How the Coen Brothers funded Blood Simple

by Simon Brew | Jan 15, 2019 | Video

In our latest video Film Stories episode, how Joel and Ethan Coen got their remarkable debut feature, Blood Simple, paid for....

Stallone as Beverly Hills Cop? It almost happened...

by Simon Brew | Jan 04, 2019 | Video

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The credit arguments at the heart of Alien

by Simon Brew | Dec 29, 2018 | Misc, Video

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Scrooged (1988) and the problem of making Carol Kane fly

by Simon Brew | Dec 21, 2018 | Video

Director Richard Donner is the man who brought the story of Superman to the big screen 40 years ago should have been a dab hand at making characters...

How Fight Club became David Fincher's revenge on Fox

by Simon Brew | Nov 27, 2018 | Video

Dan looks back at a 90s classic, digging into some of the weird and wonderful stories behind the production of Fight Club. How did Fincher use the...

The Real Life Darkness Leading to Temple of Doom

by Simon Brew | Nov 24, 2018 | Video

Now with lovely video! Simon revisits the somewhat darker return to the Indiana Jones franchise and examines just what led to the filmmakers creating...