In the wake of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, why not take a journey into these ten other cinematic odysseys…It’s the season of The Odyssey with Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation out in the world. The project has been contentious to say the least, with internet folk voicing their opinions on everything from the armor to the […]
The Counselor: When an All-Star Cast Couldn’t Deliver a Hit
Matthew Shepherd looks back at Ridley Scott’s forgotten star-studded crime thriller The Counselor…Ridley Scott does not often admit when he thinks he has been wronged. The man who made Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator has a strong confidence in his own judgement that borders on geological. So when he told the Toronto Sun, years after […]
Will Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Be The Last Ever Old School Epic?
Christopher Nolan has delivered a dazzling, mostly practical, old-school epic with The Odyssey. Will we ever see another of its kind?The Odyssey has been years in the making with feverish anticipation from Nolan-fans who have waited in bated breath for his Oppenheimer follow-up. 2026, during the buildup to his much vaunted summer release, has largely […]
Aliens at 40: The Story Behind One of the Finest Hardcore Sci-Fi Actioners Ever Conceived
As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, Hasitha Fernando explores the story behind Aliens…The follow up to Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi horror Alien, James Cameron’s Aliens is considered one of the greatest sequels ever made. The film is often bunched alongside the likes of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and The Godfather Part II as an example […]
Howard the Duck at 40: The Legacy of a Cinematic Disasterpiece
Dan Carville revisits Howard the Duck on its 40th anniversary…If you asked anyone to name some of the biggest critical and commercial flops in Hollywood history, chances are Howard the Duck will pop up. You’ll find it in lists of the worst Marvel films, the worst cape flicks, even the worst movies of all time […]
What 2026’s Box Office Triumphs Tell Us
The 2026 box office is on fire and up on 2025’s takings from this time last year. So what have the successes (and failures) told us?A few years ago, there seemed like a very real possibility that cinema and the big screen experience were irreparably damaged. There’s no two ways about it, the industry as […]
Suburbicon: When Even the Coen Brothers Can’t Save Your Movie
Matthew Shepherd on where it went wrong for Suburbicon…Hollywood disasters feel almost common these days. A production that loses its director, a star who drops out, a release date colliding with an unmovable franchise behemoth. These are all normal. Suburbicon though, the George Clooney 2017 dark comedy, is not normal. It is much stranger and […]
The Best Worst Movie: How Showgirls Became Camp Canon
Adam Page revisits Showgirls and its journey from catastrophe to camp classic….Over the years, I’ve realised something about failure, especially with bad movies, that I think we can all agree on: it has a shelf life, and if you’re patient enough, lucky enough, and if enough strangers laugh at the wreckage in the same room […]
Why Dune: Part Three needs to win Dunesday against Avengers: Doomsday
Tom Jolliffe on why Dune: Part Three needs to win the battle of Dunesday against Avengers: Doomsday…Remember Barbenheimer? That fateful day in a post-COVID landscape saw two wildly different films drop on the same day. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer couldn’t have been any more of an antithesis to Greta Gerwig’s colourful and campy adaptation of the […]
The Movie Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence Would Rather You Forget
Matthew Shepherd revisits Susanne Bier’s Serena starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence…Bradley Cooper rarely talks about Serena. Jennifer Lawrence does not either. This felt odd until learning more about it, now it makes a lore more sense. In early 2012, the two of them filmed a Depression-era period drama in the Czech Republic directed by […]
