Shout! has announced that Oliver Stone’s 1994 crime thriller Natural Born Killers is set to arrives on Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD this September as part of the Shout Select line, complete with new director-approved transfers of both the Director’s and Theatrical Cuts; check out the cover artwork and details below… Three-time Academy Award® winner* […]
Oliver Stone slams John Wick 4: “It’s become a video game more than a movie”
With impressive scores on Rotten Tomatoes and impressive box office numbers, John Wick: Chapter 4 has proven to be one of the most popular films of 2023. But someone who isn’t a fan is the filmmaker behind Natural Born Killers and Platoon, Oliver Stone. In a new interview with Variety, Stone held nothing back when […]
Northman the Barbarian: How Conan Courses Through The Northman
Tom Jolliffe looks at the similarities between The Northman and Conan the Barbarian. Spoilers follow… After success and masses of acclaim for his small scale masterworks The Witch and The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers went large scale in his third outing. The Northman is a big budget Viking revenge epic. In every way, it’s the […]
Movie Review – JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, 2021. Directed by Oliver Stone. Featuring Donald Sutherland (voice), Whoopi Goldberg (voice), Robert F Kennedy Jr, Jacqueline Kennedy (archive), John F. Kennedy (archive), Walter Cronkite (archive), Fidel Castro (archive), Martin Luther King (archive), Gerald Ford (archive), Lee Harvey Oswald. SYNOPSIS: Writer-director Oliver Stone opens up Pandora’s box once again, […]
Conan the Barbarian: An underrated work of art which ushered in a decade of imitators
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Conan The Barbarian, often overlooked for its artistic merits… There were a number of archetypal films which became popular during the 80’s. Some fads lasted longer than others, whilst some died out. The success of First Blood (but more-so Part 2) would usher in a stream of one […]
Oliver Stone to direct Dolce Vita pilot
After pulling out of Showtime’s now-abandoned Guantanamo TV series, filmmaker Oliver Stone has added another small screen project to his slate, with Deadline reporting that he will direct the pilot of the upcoming period crime drama Dolce Vita. Created by Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide: Life on the Street), Dolce Vita is inspired by the 2011 […]
Oliver Stone heading to the small screen for Guantanamo TV series
Weinstein Television has announced that it has tapped Oliver Stone to direct the first season of the upcoming drama series Guantanamo, which will mark Stone’s first foray into TV directing. The show, which has been created by Daniel Voll (The Unit), is set to revolve around the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, which […]
Blu-ray Review – Snowden (2016)
Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Olyphant, Joely Richardson, Ben Schnetzer, Scott Eastwood, and Nicolas Cage. SYNOPSIS: The Story of Edward Snowden, whistle-blower of the NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques. The film follows his life and the impact of his actions as he […]
Oscars: What Should Have Won – JFK for Best Picture over The Silence of the Lambs
Graeme Robertson on why JFK should have won Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best of 1991 was a little more business as usual when compared to the stellar line-up of a year like the 1976 nominations. We had some good films, but not many that would go on to be […]
Exclusive Interview: Oliver Stone discusses his career and new film Snowden
Paul Risker chats with Oliver Stone about his career and his new film Snowden… Oliver Stone has been the consciousness of not only modern America, but of the modern world. He has vehemently explored questions on subjects with a captivating drama that have been offset with his trademark insight. His cinema has spanned such subjects […]
