Film Stories

Project Power, from Catfish directors: first trailer

by Simon Brew | Jul 16, 2020 | News

Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in Project Power - and the first trailer for the new Netflix movie has landed....

Netflix reveals its most popular original films, 99 million watched Extraction

by Simon Brew | Jul 16, 2020 | News

Films such as Bird Box, Extraction, The Irishman and 6 Underground are all amongst the top ten original films of all time on the Netflix service....

Just Cause games coming to the movies, director hired

by Simon Brew | Jul 16, 2020 | News

Stuber director Michael Dowse is the man chosen to help bring the Just Cause videogames to the big screen - and an action franchise is being eyed....

Amadeus: see the full National Theatre production for free tonight

by Simon Brew | Jul 16, 2020 | News

See a production of the play that led to the Oscar-winning film entirely free of charge via YouTube, thanks to the National Theatre....

Film Stories Junior issue 4 (summer 2020): preorder your copy here

by Simon Brew | Jul 16, 2020 | News

The summer issue of Film Stories Junior - the only print film magazine for young film fans and primarily written by them too - is available to order...

The new Spongebob movie is heading to Netflix in the UK

by Simon Brew | Jul 16, 2020 | News

Paramount inks a deal to send the new Spongebob Squarepants film to Netflix in most places around the world....

Gears Tactics review - stop and think (and then chainsaw)

by Richard Wakeling | Jul 15, 2020 | Gaming, Reviews

The chainsaw-loving series adds brains to its brawn

The Bay Of Silence: trailer lands for upcoming mystery

by Simon Brew | Jul 15, 2020 | News

Claes Bang, Brian Cox and Olga Kurylenko lead the upcoming chilling mystery The Bay Of Silence – and here’s the trailer. C...

SciFi Now magazine closes it doors, website live and kicking

by Simon Brew | Jul 15, 2020 | News

13 years after it launched, SciFiNow magazine has ceased publication as the downturn in the publishing business continues to bite hard....

BFI Future Film Fest: deadline approaching for young filmmakers

by Simon Brew | Jul 15, 2020 | News

If you're aged between 16 and 25 and have made a short film in the last two years, then you're eligible for a very special BFI festival....

Tenet running time confirmed at 150 minutes (less a second)

by Simon Brew | Jul 15, 2020 | News

Christopher Nolan's eagerly-awaited Tenet looks like it's completed, even though it's less clear just when we're all going to be able to see it....

Summerland, starring Gemma Arterton – first trailer

by Simon Brew | Jul 15, 2020 | News

A summer treat looks to be heading into cinemas at the end of July - here's the first trailer for Summerland, starring Gemma Arterton....

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....

Starmancer preview: space carpeting shenanigans

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 14, 2020 | Gaming, Previews

Care for a station full of space colonists – or if everything goes horribly wrong, clean up the corpses and grow a new batch

Odeon parent company AMC reaches debt agreement to keep going

by Simon Brew | Jul 14, 2020 | News

The AMC chain in the US - which owns Odeon over here - has come up with a debt agreement that'll keep the company solvent until at least next spring....

Krabi, 2562 review - a film worth seeking out

by Vanessa Thompsett | Jul 14, 2020 | Reviews

Available on demand now is the extraordinary Krabi, 2562 (named after a province in Thailand) - and here's our review of the film....

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films getting UK 4K disc release

by Simon Brew | Jul 14, 2020 | News

Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows have both been confirmed for a physical 4K disc release next month in the UK....

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...

Beetlejuice is getting a 4K release this August

by Simon Brew | Jul 14, 2020 | News

It's showtime! Tim Burton's Beetlejuice is getting a release on the Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray format this autumn, with an impressive collectors' set lined...

The Procession to Calvary review - tiny, grumpy lions

by Lewis Packwood | Jul 13, 2020 | Gaming, Reviews

Point and Mich-elangelo

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 Old Guard review: a lively and engaging Netflix superhero movie

by Mark Harrison | Jul 13, 2020 | News, Reviews

Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne front a team of immortal soldiers of fortune in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Old Guard, a possible franchise-starter f...

Greyhound review: a pared-down Tom Hanks WW2 thriller

by Mark Harrison | Jul 13, 2020 | News, Reviews

Tom Hanks writes and stars in Greyhound, a short, sharp, and single-minded suspense thriller that’s as brisk as its title suggests - here's our r...

Podcast: Executive Decision (1996) and Men In Black 3 (2012)

by Simon Brew | Jul 13, 2020 | Podcasts

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two hit movies with two very different stories behind them....

Prisoners: a second ending was shot for the film

by Simon Brew | Jul 13, 2020 | News

Very light spoilers, as director Denis Villeneueve has been discussing the ending of his thriller Prisoners, and how it ended up with the one it got....