It’s time for a double bill of Film Noir thrills from 1948 with Anthony Mann’s Raw Deal and He Walked By Night… Anthony Mann was an acclaimed and prolific director who specialised in westerns, epics, war movies, and film noir. He was famously fired from the director’s chair on Spartacus to be replaced by a […]
Has the Mainstream Audience Outgrown Comic Book Movies?
Has the mainstream audience outgrown comic book movies? We ponder whether comic book movies have enough audience to warrant such big budgets now… Remember a time when short of being one of the big two of Batman or Superman, comic book adaptations were seen as a sure-fire money pit? We saw failed Punisher, Phantom, Shadow […]
Guardians of the Galaxy at 10: The Oddball Superhero Flick That Won People’s Hearts
Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy on the tenth anniversary of its release… Of the many IPs owned by Marvel Studios, Guardians of the Galaxy was probably one of their most lesser known ones, so it came as a surprise to many when Kevin Feige & company decided […]
Zack Snyder’s Watchmen: An ambitious adaptation of a darkly complex comic book classic
Hasitha Fernando on the story behind Zack Snyder’s Watchmen… Watchmen was a seminal piece of literature written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons that received universal acclaim when it was published. Multiple attempts at adapting the complex source material were abandoned until Zack Snyder was hired by Warner Bros. to tackle the property. […]
Collateral at 20: The Story Behind the Stylish Neo-Noir Crime Drama
Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Collateral as it turns 20… Michael Mann’s stylish neo noir crime drama Collateral gave audiences an unforgettable Terminator-esque villain with Tom Cruise’s Vincent and a relatable, everyman hero with Jamie Foxx’s Max. As the suspenseful action thriller celebrates its 20th anniversary we take a look back at its […]
Revisiting Timothy Dalton’s Underappreciated James Bond
On this day in 1986, Timothy Dalton was announced as the new James Bond. We look back over his underrated stint as 007… Who’s your favourite Bond? Sometimes this question ends up revealing more about your generation than anything else. I’ll state it though, that I’m a Connery man, even though he was before my […]
The Best ‘So Bad It’s Good’ Horror Movies
EJ Moreno looks at the best of the worst horror films… Mastering the perfect ‘bad movie’ is hard. Many believe that once a film is deemed trash, it’s instantly redeemable. This is the moment that will tell you otherwise; some bad movies are really good. We’ve compiled a collection of “So Bad It’s Good’ horror […]
Unforgiven: The Story Behind Clint Eastwood’s Western Masterpiece
Premiering 32 years ago today, Hasitha Fernando dives into the story behind Clint Eastwood’s 1992 masterpiece Unforgiven… There are Revisionist Westerns, and then there are Revisionist Westerns. Unforgiven firmly belongs in the latter category. Barring occasional entries like Dances with Wolves, the early to mid-90s was a period in time when the western genre as […]
The Female Action Hero
Tom Jolliffe on female action heroes… With the impending UK release of Atomic Blonde, it now seems a good time to consider the female action hero. You may think this ‘phenomena’ only stretches back to around the time Sigourney Weaver donned a mecha-suit, but it goes back further. There has certainly been a significant rise […]
The Early Adventures of the Animated Batman
Gary Collinson looks at the early adventures of the animated Batman… Following the cancellation of ABC’s live-action Batman television series in 1968, rival network CBS sought to capitalise on the character’s popularity with younger viewers by adding the Caped Crusader to their Saturday morning cartoon schedule. CBS had first dipped their toes into the world […]
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