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Fight Club at 25: An Incendiary brew of satire, style, dark comedy & violence

October 19, 2024 by admin

As it celebrates its 25th anniversary, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Fight Club… To say Fight Club is one of the most controversial cinematic efforts of the 1990s would be an understatement. The film can be bunched with 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause and 1967’s The Graduate in terms of thematic similarities but […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Brad Pitt, David Fincher, Edward Norton, Fight Club, Helena Bonham Carter

The Enviable “Worst” Films of David Fincher

December 3, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to look at arguably David Fincher’s worst films… but fear not, as they’re all still pretty great… Directors come and go. Some have an enviable legacy born of a stellar CV. Such power usually means they can make what they want and indulge however they please. Martin Scorsese seems to find it increasingly […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alien 3, David Fincher, Fight Club, Gone Girl, Mank, Panic Room, Se7en, The Game, The Killer, Zodiac

David Fincher looks back at his career and Fight Club reaction

October 30, 2023 by EJ Moreno

Iconic filmmaker David Fincher is entering a new era with his sleek thriller The Killer. As he heads to the future, the filmmaker has been talking about his legacy and how he views his career. Speaking to The Guardian, Fincher honestly looks at himself, saying he’ll “never be a more mature filmmaker” before addressing his […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: David Fincher, Fight Club, The Killer

Audience Manipulation Through Character Perspective

February 19, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on playing with character perspective to take the audience exactly where you want them… In the history of cinema, many writers and directors have sought to transfix an audience and take them to very deliberate places. Sometimes these tales fire straight like an arrow, leading us on a linear and clear path, with […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: American Psycho, Fight Club, Rashomon, The Burning, The Handmaiden, The Usual Suspects

The Essential Movies of David Fincher

January 1, 2021 by Red Stewart

Dan Sareen presents David Fincher’s best movies… Few would have predicted David Fincher rising to the top of a greatest filmmakers of all time list. After all, this was the guy who started off doing commercials and (through heavy studio interference) botched his blockbuster debut with Alien 3. And yet, things turned around for the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Dan Sareen, Flickering Myth TV, Movies Tagged With: David Fincher, Fight Club, Gone Girl, Mank, Se7en, The Game, Zodiac

Revisiting the Cinematic Landscape of 1999

December 1, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe travels back in time 20 years to 1999 to look over the cinematic landscape… The millennium suddenly draws in. The century is in its final year. Cinema has a pre-occupation with apocalypse and disorder, chaos, among other things. It’s 1999. 20 years ago. That’s pretty frightening, but regardless, hold my hand, lets go […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: American Pie, Being John Malkovich, Blair Witch Project, End of Days, Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, The Matrix, The Mummy, The Sixth Sense, Toy Story 2

The Disturbed Outsider: A Cinematic Pathway Leading to Joker

October 11, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

In the wake of Joker’s success, Tom Jolliffe looks at similar cinematic examples of the disturbed outsider… With a quarter billion in takings and counting, as well as divisive reviews, media attention up the wazoo, and a status (particularly among the 18-30 viewers) as a cinematic masterpiece, Joker’s depiction of disturbed isolation and disconnect from […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho, Black Swan, Fight Club, Joker, Naked, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Possession, Pyscho, Sisters, The Shining, videodrome

Chuck Palahniuk teams with Dark Horse for Fight Club 3

October 3, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk is teaming with Eisner Award winning artist Cameron Stewart, letterer Nate Piekos, colorist Dave McCaig and acclaimed cover artist David Mack to continue the story of Tyler Durden in the 12-part comic book maxi-series Fight Club 3. In the 12 part monthly comic book maxi series FIGHT CLUB 3, Marla Singer […]

Filed Under: Comic Books, Gary Collinson, News Tagged With: Dark Horse Comics, Fight Club, fight club 3

Mondo announces Fight Club: The Home Game

August 3, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Mondo has announced the upcoming release of Fight Club: The Home Game, a two-player competitive deck-building card game where you choose to embody one side of a split personality competing for control of a single mind. Take on the role of either The Narrator or Tyler Durden as you play a game of tug of war […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Toys Tagged With: Fight Club, Fight Club: The Home Game, Mondo

The Merc with a Mouth photobombs Fox Blu-ray covers to celebrate Deadpool 2 release

May 17, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

In celebration of the release of Deadpool 2, Walmart is offering an exclusive line of limited edition Blu-rays with their covers “photobombed” by the Merc with a Mouth. On offer are sixteen different Fox titles in Logan, My Cousin Vinny, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Edward Scissorhands, War for the Planet of the Apes, […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Assassin's Creed, Cast Away, Deadpool 2, Edward Scissorhands, Fight Club, Logan, Marvel, My Cousin Vinny, Office Space, Predator, Revenge of the Nerds, Speed, The Bad and The Ugly, The Good, The Terminator, War for the Planet of the Apes, X-Men, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men:First Class

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