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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure gets new 4K restoration release

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Before they Face the Music, Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted “Theodore” Logan are returning to the big screen this summer with a brand new 4K restoration of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, which is set to receive special screenings as part of the Luna Drive In Cinema this month ahead of a 4K Ultra […]

Excellent Adventures with Bill & Ted

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With the third set to arrive this year, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the first two Bill & Ted films… I remember when Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure came out and took the world by storm. I first saw it on video and in the early 90’s it would be a film I’d watching at […]

None More Nineties: Why Speed is the ultimate 90s action film

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Robb Sheppard on the ultimate 90s action movie, Speed… The 1990s witnessed a changing of the guard when it came to action movies. Speed crashed into 1994 and went from being “that bus movie” to one of the decade’s finest straight-up action films. Alongside the gloriously OTT Con Air, the far-fetched Face/Off, and Michael Bay’s […]

The Wyld Stallyns return in Bill & Ted Face the Music trailer

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Following on the heels of this morning’s poster, Orion Pictures has debuted the first trailer for the long-awaited threeequel Bill & Ted Face the Music offering a first look at footage from the time-travelling comedy which sees Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprising their roles as Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan. And […]

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reveal why they returned for The Matrix 4

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One of the most surprising films currently in production is the fourth instalment in The Matrix franchise with stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss returning alongside one of the directors of the original trilogy, Lana Wachowski, who is also co-writing the project. Now, in a recent interview with Empire, Reeves and Moss revealed Wachowski’s return and this new […]

Shades, Leather and New Messiahs in Late 90s Sci-Fi

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Tom Jolliffe looks back on three key sci-fi films at the end of the last century – Blade, Dark City and The Matrix… Towards the tail end of the 20th Century, sci-fi cinema was in something of a rut. A plethora of films were being made, but with a few exceptions, everything seemed to be […]

John Wick: Chapter 4 has been delayed a year

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We’re going to have to wait another year before we see Keanu Reeves’ master assassin back in action, as Lionsgate has announced that it has pushed back the release of John Wick: Chapter 4 by more than a year. The next instalment was originally set to open on May 21st of this year, the same […]

The Joys of Old School Practical Effects

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the use of old school effects and filming techniques and whether they still have a place in the CGI age… Computers are a wonderful thing. The computer generated image has take cinema up to a point where almost limitless creative possibilities are at a film-makers disposable. You can create a whole […]

The Matrix 4: Can It Work?

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Tom Jolliffe on The Matrix 4… 2019 signalled a number of cinematic anniversaries and milestones. It was after all, the year of Blade Runner (the setting of the original film). It also marked the 20 year anniversary of a certain Keanu Reeves-led film that revolutionised visual effects and re-galvanised a sci-fi genre that was suffering […]