Film Stories

Mark Kermode Live In 3D: see last night's show for free here

by Simon Brew | Jul 21, 2020 | News

Mark Kermode returned with his MK3D show, and guests included Simon Pegg and Shazia Mirza - details on how to watch for free right here....

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....

Skelattack review - grinding to dust

by Ian Dransfield | Jul 20, 2020 | Gaming, Reviews

Dead on arrival

Tetris: Taron Egerton to star in movie about the game’s controversy

by Simon Brew | Jul 20, 2020 | News

Director Jon S Baird will follow up the wonderful Stan & Ollie by diving into the hugely convoluted legal battle behind the videogame Tetris....

The much darker alternate ending to Die Hard With A Vengeance

by Simon Brew | Jul 20, 2020 | News

Two different endings were filmed to Die Hard With A Vengeance: see the much darker one they didn't use right here....

The King’s Man: new posters land for upcoming prequel

by Simon Brew | Jul 20, 2020 | News

The third Kingsman film, The King's Man, is firmly on the release schedules still for September - and two new posters have landed....

Podcast: Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995) and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

by Simon Brew | Jul 20, 2020 | Podcasts

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a sequel that went through a fair few ideas, and a comedy that heavily stumbled at the box...

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.

No Time To Die: new rumour suggests delay to summer 2021

by Simon Brew | Jul 17, 2020 | News

The next James Bond film - No Time To Die - may now be pushed back further to summer 2021, according to a new report....

You’ve Been Trumped Too getting full release after four years of legal battles

by Simon Brew | Jul 17, 2020 | News

A feature documentary about Donald Trump and the impact of his Scottish golf course is finally cleared of legal mire and able to be fully released....

New trailer: X-Men: The New Mutants

by Simon Brew | Jul 17, 2020 | News

A new 50 second promo trailer for X-Men: The New Mutants arrives, and it might just be that this film is finally going to be released....

Misbehaviour poster featuring Keira Knightly, Jessie Buckley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Misbehaviour finally heading to DVD in September

by Simon Brew | Jul 17, 2020 | News

It's taken longer than expected, but Misbehaviour is getting a DVD release - although there's no sign of a Blu-ray version....

The Show Must Go On taking its summer break

by Simon Brew | Jul 17, 2020 | News

Don't expect any free streaming musicals for the next few weeks, as The Shows Must Go On programme is taking a short break....

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....

Fletch reboot finally happening, Jon Hamm to star

by Simon Brew | Jul 16, 2020 | News

Jon Hamm will follow in the footsteps of Chevy Chase on the big screen, as he signs up to take on the role of Fletch....

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...