The original Star Wars was wonderfully economical about this. A glance at a strange face, a battered doorway, a Jawa carrying something of doubtful provenance, and suddenly the galaxy seemed to extend ...

In today’s turbulent times, however, Ali G himself finds himself under attack for cultural appropriation, and that battle is part of the narrative here; the publicity campaign for this film has ...

‘This f*cking film did so much damage…brought my family so much pain,’ complains the late Justin Hardy in this new documentary that’s partly a personal account of the making of the fabled 1973 British ...

The sole entry in the category ‘Roger Corman horror cheapies which became hit musicals’, 1960’s The Little Shop of Horrors is a strange and interesting movie that has a quaint, weird, down-at-heel ...

I burned myself out on the musical Little Shop of Horrors when I played the role of talking carnivorous plant Audrey II in an amateur stage production; fortunately I didn’t really have to perform, but ...

Give the people what they want!’ screams someone against the deafening din of the new Street Fighter reboot, reviving the video game franchise that already spawned a much-maligned 90’s cinematic ...

Anthony Shaffer’s The Wicker Man is generally voted to be one of the best, if not the very best, of British horror films . That’s quite an accolade, because Robin Hardy’s thriller is quite an odd ...

t feels like the world is stuck in some kind of limbo right now; we know that the gradual Epstein files are going to provide probably the biggest political change in anyone’s living memory, but ...

To paraphrase Taylor Swift, at least one of these things is not like the other; Gein and Dahmer’s narratives are about serial killers who kill and kill again, whereas the Lizzie Borden story is about ...

Yikes. The last time I checked in with an adaptation of Stone Cold Jane Austen’s beloved Sense and Sensibility was back in 1995, when Ang Lee’s leads were played by Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan ...

‘In the wild, the fiercest battle is not against nature — it’s within’ runs the tagline here; Cameron Alexander’s script isn’t as light-hearted as the recent Channing Tatum film Dog, which had a ...

It might surprise any regular readers who don’t expect piety from this blog, but the film I’ve watched most frequently over the last three years is a religious one; 1973’s adaptation of the musical ...