Best Films Never Made

In 1967, The Beatles were the most famous band in the world. Maybe they were even the most famous people in the world. Just a year earlier John Lennon had claimed they were “bigger than Jesus”, and it was...

2017’s been a good year for Stephen King fans. Not only have we seen the recent release of a film adaptation of The Dark Tower, widely considered King's masterpiece, but shortly we’ll be experiencing what...

After nearly 10 years of development, The Dark Tower is finally coming to the big screen. Under the direction of Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), the movie hopes to launch an expansive film and television...

The Mummy returns. Again and again. It was first created in 1932 by screenwriter John L. Balderston with Boris Karloff as the bandaged baddie; then reanimated in 1999 in a more blockbuster version directed by...

The DC Extended Universe is rapidly expanding this year; while one film shy of Marvel’s 2017 output, hopes are high for Wonder Woman and Justice League to redeem the lacklustre receptions given to last...

"His job was to catch outlaws, and to collect taxes. And that's a pretty shitty gig, you know? In our version, the Sheriff was basically a decent guy, a civil servant and a war hero." In January 2007, Ethan...

"Was working on this. Don't think I am anymore. Love it though." One pithy line on an Instagram post seemed to mark the death of Alien 5 on New Year’s Day 2015. A death knell marked by a collection of...

When you really think about it, Forrest Gump is a weird movie. Pitch it in the abstract - "let’s send this random hayseed careening through recent history like a southern Doctor Who" - and it sounds...

With Snowden thudding resoundingly at the US box office - Oliver Stone’s lowest opening in 20 years - let’s distract ourselves, ahead of its UK release, with an outstandingly mad concept. What if...

“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today’s employer is seeking.” - Ignatius J. Reilly If Ignatius J. Reilly, the protagonist of A Confederacy Of Dunces, is even halfway correct in his...

Captain America technically shouldn't work on screen. The fundamental top-line interpretation is that he's a chest-beating, red-white-'n'-blue überpatriot who could appear obnoxious, removed and...

In 2019, Harrison Ford will once again don cinema’s most famous fedora for the fifth time. Yet if our latest Best Film Never Made had seen the light of day, it’s unlikely we would have seen another Indiana...

John Hughes made plenty of perfect films in his time. There was the irrepressible charm of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, led by Matthew Broderick, and the soulful rebellion of The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink...

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” —H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft was the father of cosmic horror. A man who...

When George Lucas was on the hunt for someone to bring the much anticipated Return of the Jedi to life in the early 1980s, he thought of two young directors that were laying the foundations of their...