Simon Thompson revisits Waterworld, the 1995 movie that sunk Kevin Costner’s star status…Infamous production cycles are something that fascinate me as a film fan, for whatever reason. Be it the huge egos involved, or the insane this couldn’t possibly happen in any other working environment anecdotes. In amongst the sheer absurdity of big productions and […]
The Thing, Brazil, and Jennifer’s Body: When Movies Find Their Audience Decades Later
Adam Page on movies that find their audience decades on…Let me tell you about a smell, and see if it brings back memories. Carpet that has absorbed fifteen years of rain off strangers’ coats. Warm plastic. The slight chemical sweetness of a popcorn machine that nobody’s cleaned since the Falklands. A teenage clerk with a […]
10 Unforgettable Amnesiac Movie Protagonists
Casey Chong presents a selection of unforgettable amnesiac movie protagonists…One of the most fascinating ways of depicting a character in a movie is using amnesia as a plot device to explore the dramatic or comedic side of searching for identity, remembering the past, and discovering the truth. From Rufus Sewell’s John Murdoch’s quest to regain […]
Wildwood: Do Audiences Care About the Process or the Product?
Wildwood is an incredible technical achievement with great storytelling but no one is watching. Do audiences care about the creative process any more?Imagine developing a film for sixteen years and spending seven of them on the stop motion animation process for a film that director Travis Knight promotes as an anti-AI movie. This is handcrafted […]
12 Essential Erotically Charged Thrillers
We get hot under the collar with twelve essential, erotically-charged thrillers…Erotic thrillers are experiencing something of a comeback and are arguably more mainstream than ever. Plenty of fare, once consigned to Skinemax cable premieres in the dead of night, are capturing audiences on the big screen or taking pride of place as streaming originals that […]
10 Cult 1980s Sci-Fi Movies You Need to See
Casey Chong presents a selection of cult sci-fi movies of the 1980s you need to see…The 1980s era marked the rise of sci-fi cinema dominated by genre-defining blockbusters from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to Back to the Future, Aliens, and Predator, not to mention iconic IPs including Star Wars and Star Trek, which continued to rule […]
Doctor Strange at 10: Bringing Marvel’s Master of the Mystic Arts to the Screen
Ten years on from its release, Hasitha Fernando explores the story behind Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange…When Doctor Strange arrived in cinemas in 2016, it marked a significant departure for the Marvel Cinematic Universe from a narrative and visual standpoint. Up to that point, Marvel’s heroes largely inhabited worlds shaped by superhuman abilities, science and technology. […]
“I’ll Be Back…to Kill You”: Why The Terminator is Pure Horror
Adam Page on why The Terminator is pure horror…In a previous life, I worked in the Health Service. I’ve worked in hospitals, psych wards, I’ve worked the streets at night with people you pretend don’t exist. I know how to call something what it is: The Terminator is a horror movie.It’s not an action movie […]
Out, Out, Brief Candle: Patrick Stewart, 1940-2026
Adam Page remembers the late Sir Patrick Stewart…Before he was a knight, before he was the captain, before the Royal Shakespeare Company gave him a spear and told him to stand at the back, Patrick Stewart wrote obituaries. A teenaged hack on a local Yorkshire paper. By his brother’s account, he would skive off to […]
Nightmare Retro Games of Yesteryear: 5 Spooky Horrors for Halloween
It’s blummin’ Halloween again, so it’s time once more to delve into the retro vaults and rummage through some spooky titles that will give you a suitable 8-bit thrill. This year’s offering to the spirits of gaming past brings werewolves, ghouls, zombies, skeletons and serial killers…Werewolves of London – Viz Design/Mastertronic – ZX Spectrum, Commodore […]
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