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The Making of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – An Oral History

March 16, 2018 by Luke Owen

Luke Owen interviews the people behind 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider… These interviews are taken from Lights, Camera, GAME OVER!: How Video Game Movies Get Made – available now from all good book sellers. By the end of the 1990s, the idea of turning a video game into a movie wasn’t high on the list […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Luke Owen, Movies Tagged With: Angelina Jolie, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Steven de Souza, tomb raider, Video game movie

Replay Level? The Best Video Game Movie Scenes

February 6, 2018 by Matt Rodgers

Matt Rodgers on the best ever video game movie scenes… The first part of 2018 will see two high profile videogame adaptations hit the big screen in an attempt to do what 2016’s Assassin’s Creed couldn’t, by breaking a curse which has stretched back as far as 1993’s infamous Super Mario Bros. movie. First we’ll […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Matt Rodgers, Movies, Video Games Tagged With: Angelina Jolie, Doom, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Rampage, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Super Mario Bros., tomb raider, Warcraft

How do video game movies get made?

August 1, 2017 by Luke Owen

It’s been a question on the mind of video game fans around the world for many years: why are most video game movies the way they are? Well a new book titled Lights, Camera, GAME OVER!: How Video Game Movies Get Made from Flickering Myth’s Luke Owen looks behind the scenes of some of the […]

Filed Under: Books, Luke Owen, Movies, News Tagged With: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros., tomb raider

The Top 5 Movie Explorers

April 15, 2017 by Henry Bevan

Henry Bevan with his top five movie explorers… After debuting to generally positive response in the UK, director James Gray’s absorbing, thought-provoking, and fascinating  The Lost City of Z is opening in the United States. The film follows the exploits of the real-life explorer Percy Fawcett, played by Charlie Hunnam, leading up to his famous […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Henry Bevan, Movies Tagged With: Aguirre the Wrath of God, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Lawrence of Arabia

The Highest Grossing Video Game Movies of All-Time

February 2, 2017 by Luke Owen

Luke Owen keeps track of the biggest video game movies… To go along with our Highest Grossing Superhero Movies of All-Time list, I felt we should also keep tabs on the video game movie adaptation. Since their debut in 1993, they’ve mostly come with a bad reputation, bad reviews and often bad box office results. […]

Filed Under: Luke Owen, Movies, News Tagged With: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Max Payne, Mortal Kombat, Need for Speed, pokemon, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Street Fighter, The Angry Birds Movie, Warcraft

Ten Stock Female Characters Hollywood Needs to Stop Writing

May 19, 2016 by Kirsty Capes

Kirsty Capes with ten stock female characters Hollywood needs to stop writing… From Mary Sues to Disposable Women, Hollywood seems to have a problem with writing interesting and original female characters. It’s not a problem, I would argue, that seems to happen with male characters, and I for one find it interesting, if not a […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Kirsty Capes, Movies Tagged With: (500) days of summer, 10 Things I hate About You, Avatar, Basic Instinct, Bringing down the House, Clueless, Cruel Intetions, Divergent, Easy A, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Garden State, Gladiator, Grease, Jennifer's Body, Juno, Kick Ass 2, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Legally Blonde, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge, Never Been Kissed, Pretty Woman, Resident Evil, Sin City, Star Trek, Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, taken, The Dark Knight Rises, The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, The Matrix, The Princess Diaries, The royal Tenebaums, The Wedding Date, Thi13en Ghosts, Transformers, Twilight, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Tomb Raiding: Rebooting Lara and Where She May Plunder Next

April 30, 2016 by Tony Black

Tony Black on the new Tomb Raider movie reboot… It’s been a seriously long time coming but, at last, we have a new Lara Croft. Despite Daisy Ridley aggressively campaigning in recent weeks for the part, recent Oscar winner and hot property Alicia Vikander will now be headlining the long-gestated Tomb Raider reboot. It’s potentially […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tony Black Tagged With: Alicia Vikander, Angelina Jolie, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, tomb raider

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