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Go Pro: The Great Warren Beatty

The mighty Warren Beatty’s off-screen persona as a ladies-man has arguably made him more famous than his movies. However, Beatty uses this as a way of twisting audience expectations, delivering films with a strong emotional (and political) [...]

May 1, 2020

What A Joker! Jack Nicholson On The Set Of Roman Polanski’s CHINATOWN

Roman Polanski’s Chinatown is one of the great films of the 1970s. Written by the great Robert Towne (it won the Original Screenplay Oscar), the 1974 noir takes detective genre’s conventions and turns them on their head. Jack [...]

April 28, 2020

The Best Scene In Tim Burton’s BATMAN

There’s much to enjoy in Tim Burton’s Batman. The 1989 release is packed with wonderful production design from Anton Furst, a brilliant Danny Elfman score and great performances from everyone in the cast. Not bad for a movie which was [...]

April 25, 2020

Tim Burton’s BATMAN

In 1988 director Tim Burton was working on his second feature, Beetlejuice, at Warner Bros, when the director was offered a Batman film. For the first time in a decade, the project gathered real momentum. Bringing along his Beetlejuice star Michael [...]

April 11, 2020

Even More Movies To Watch During The Coronavirus Shutdown

At the minute we’re all living in the first act of a post-apocalyptic movie. We’re embracing the unknown, falling head-first into a future/present that we can’t really comprehend due to COVID-19/Coronavirus. Movies In [...]

March 19, 2020

Blu-ray Review: DOCTOR SLEEP Is A Worthwhile Sequel To The Shining

It was incredibly brave for the mighty Stephen King to write a follow-up to his seminal 1977 novel The Shining. The tale (and Stanley Kubrick’s film) has sunk deep into horror lore and there was a tremendous amount of expectation placed on Doctor [...]

March 7, 2020

The Passing Of Peter Fonda

Actor Peter Fonda has died at the age of 79. Born on 23 February 1940, the counterculture icon was the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. He died on 16 August 2019, the cause of death was respiratory failure [...]

August 17, 2019

The Best Scene In Tim Burton’s BATMAN

Tim Burton‘s Batman is 30 years old. It’s crazy to write that – I remember seeing it on the big screen back in 1989. I was nine years old. Thirty years before 1989 was 1959 – a very different era. The world went Batman crazy [...]

June 23, 2019

Not To Be Overlooked: Trailer For Stephen King Adaptation DOCTOR SLEEP

The Shining is one of the great Stephen King books and Stanley Kubrick’s film is one of the finest adaptations of a King novel – even though it’s not a true adaptation of the book. Doctor Sleep, the follow-up novel to The Shining is an [...]

June 15, 2019

All Work And No Play: Kubrick, Nicholson And Duvall On The Set Of THE SHINING

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining reeks of atmosphere. It’s not a literal adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, but it’s a film filled with nuance and detail. Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance might be nuts from the get-go but Nicholson [...]

February 2, 2019

Unmasked: Behind-The-Scenes Photo From Tim Burton’s BATMAN

It’s always good to see any behind-the-scenes pics from movies – and this one from Tim Burton’s Batman is great. You see Michael Keaton in his costume – but without his cape and cowl, alongside his stunt double and Jack [...]

April 2, 2018

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER, PADDINGTON 2 & MORE

This time around: Love is in the air for Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name; Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar gets buttoned-up; Hugh Grant commits crimes against acting Paddington 2; Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman get [...]

March 4, 2018