WeTransfer updates T&Cs, allows it to use your data to train AI

by Simon Brew | Jul 15, 2025 | News

The WeTransfer service, used by creatives to transfer their work, is the latest to want to use your work to train AI models. More here....

Even after 20 years, The Descent remains one of the best British horror films

by Maria Lattila | Jul 15, 2025 | Feature, News

Now 20, The Descent has lost none of its impact. Here's what modern horror films could learn from director Neil Marshall's modern classic....

Rian Johnson says he's developing an original sci-fi concept

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 14, 2025 | News

Knives Out director Rian Johnson suggests he's moving back into Looper sci-fi territory with a "high-concept" sci-fi idea he's developing after Wake...

Donkey Kong | Copyright filing hints at Universal movie plans

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 14, 2025 | News

A recent copyright filing suggests that Nintendo and Universal are planning to make a Donkey Kong movie....

Superman (2025) thoughts | Kindness is a superpower

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 14, 2025 | Feature, News

In a climate of division, cynicism and conflict, Superman emerges as a disarmingly sincere plea for kindness. ...

Podcast | Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994) and Cast Away (2000)

by Simon Brew | Jul 14, 2025 | Podcasts

Leslie Nielsen's swansong as Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, and the long production of 2000's Cast Away. Both stories told here....

Practical Magic 2 | Original stars Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing set to reprise their roles

by Maria Lattila | Jul 11, 2025 | News

The cast for Practical Magic 2 keeps growing and Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing are set to reprise their roles from the original. ...

The Backrooms | Mark Duplass joins A24 film adaptation of viral YouTube series

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 11, 2025 | News

Directed by Kane Parsons, and an adaptation of his viral YouTube series, The Backrooms has added Mark Duplass and more to its cast....

Road House 2 | Director Guy Ritchie is said to have left the production

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 11, 2025 | News

Weeks before filming was due to begin, director Guy Ritchie has left the production of the Jake Gyllenhaal-starring action sequel, Road House 2,...

Superman III | The childhood nightmares chat

by Simon Brew | Jul 11, 2025 | Feature, News

Superman III was supposed to be (and is, in large part) a family friendly movie - right up to the part involving Annie Ross and a massive computer....

Podcast | In conversation with Nick Mohammed

by Simon Brew | Jul 11, 2025 | Podcasts

He's starring in Deep Cover, and there's more on the way - Nick Mohammed joins us for a Film Stories podcast conversation....

Street Smart | The Christopher Reeve thriller that got made thanks to Superman IV

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 10, 2025 | Feature, News

Superman star Christopher Reeve played a much darker kind of journalist in 1987’s Street Smart - a fascinating thriller based on a pack of lies....

Lost In Space | 1998 space adventure getting 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 10, 2025 | News

Arrow Films is giving the 1998 space adventure Lost In Space the fancy 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray treatment this September....

G20, The Accountant 2 hit big on streaming – the new home of action cinema

by Simon Brew | Jul 10, 2025 | News

G20 and The Accountant 2 are the latest films to demonstrate action cinema is the lifeblood of movie streaming. More here....

Superman review | Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

by Maria Lattila | Jul 09, 2025 | News, Reviews

James Gunn’s take on the Man of Steel is highly anticipated, but is it worth the wait? Here’s our Superman review. ...

HBO Max | Name change kicks in today, UK launch still 2026

by Simon Brew | Jul 09, 2025 | News

HBO Max became Max. Now Warner Bros Discovery officially rebrands it as HBO Max again. Heading to the UK in 2026....

Hypnotic | In 2023, Robert Rodriguez casually dropped one of the weirdest heist scenes ever

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 09, 2025 | Feature, News

Starring Ben Affleck, the thriller Hypnotic slipped into cinemas in 2023. But its heist sequence really has to be seen to be believed…...

Film Stories Podcast Network | M3GAN, Daredevil, Twelve Monkeys and more

by A J Black | Jul 09, 2025 | Film Stories Podcast Network, News

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: deadly dolls, men without fear, apocalyptic pathogens and much more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…...

Mental health & wellbeing matters: resources for those going through difficult times

by Jane Roberts | Jul 09, 2025 | Feature

Just a few organisations and places that offer support - and please add any more you think we should have on the list....

Dune Messiah is officially titled Dune: Part Three, will only be partly shot in IMAX

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 08, 2025 | News

Long said to be called Dune Messiah, Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi sequel will now be called Dune: Part Three. Also: less IMAX than previously thought....

Eruption | Jurassic World hits (again), another Michael Crichton book gets moving

by Simon Brew | Jul 08, 2025 | News

Eruption, a volcano thriller from the late Michael Crichton, is moving at Sony Pictures with new screenwriters now hired....

Heads Of State and streaming’s love of martial arts

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 08, 2025 | Feature, News

Although they don't advertise it, action thrillers like Prime Video’s Heads Of State and Netflix's The Old Guard 2 owe a clear debt to the martial a...

Sinners featured period costumes once intended for Marvel's Blade

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 07, 2025 | News

Where Marvel's Blade has faltered, its costumes found a second life in another period horror: Ryan Coogler's vampire hit, Sinners....

Three US cinema chains up pre-movie ads to 30 minutes

by Simon Brew | Jul 07, 2025 | News

AMC, Regal and Cinemark in the US are running pre-film adverts and shows that are adding 30 minutes to the start time of a movie....

TikTok AI babies in danger and a future of more of what you like, forever 

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 07, 2025 | Feature, News

TikTok is filling up with weird AI-generated videos of babies in peril. It’s the sign of a strange new era in entertainment…...

Podcast | The Godfather Part III (1990) and Clueless (1995)

by Simon Brew | Jul 07, 2025 | Podcasts

Francis Ford Coppola and why he finally made The Godfather Part III. Amy Heckerling, and the knockbacks before she got Clueless off the ground....

Jurassic World Rebirth | How The Road Runner inspired the latest dino revival

by James Harvey | Jul 04, 2025 | Feature, News

Jurassic World Rebirth takes inspiration from plenty of places - some more likely than others....

Podcast | In conversation with Ilya Naishuller: Heads Of State, Hardcore Henry, Nobody and more

by Simon Brew | Jul 04, 2025 | Podcasts

Director Ilya Naishuller joins us to talk Heads Of State, Hardcore Henry, Nobody, CG beer, and a lot of other stuff too......

In memoriam: Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen

by Dan Cooper | Jul 04, 2025 | News

Actor Michael Madsen, whose iconic performance in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs made him a star, has passed away....