Best Films Never Made

A story 50 years in the making: as with many stories we tell in this series, it concludes with an unhappy ending. Not for a studio, or the character of James Bond and his legacy, but one man. His name was...

“You see the movies they make now... They just keep making the same one over and over again.” Francis Ford Coppola no longer believes in cinema. Of all the Best Films Never Made projects haunting...

What if DC were level with Marvel? Scratch that, what if they were ahead? One film had the potential to make it happen nearly a decade earlier. The mastermind was George Miller; the man who made our ears and...

Holocaust comedy. Two words to make you leave the page in disgust or read on with extreme curiosity. If you’ve got any sense, you will have done the latter, because Jerry Lewis’ 1972 film The Day the...

If Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit were made today, the sequel would be greenlit and in pre-production before the end of opening weekend. Originally released in 1988, its groundbreaking mix of...

"Almost we are persuaded that there is something after all ... something essential waiting for all of us in the dark alleys of the world, aboriginally loathsome, immeasurable and certainly nameless." - Orson...

How often is it that a pair of the world’s most fêted and adored talents put their minds together to create a film? There are some great examples dotted throughout cinematic history – Ford & Wayne,...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is without doubt the most ambitious film of 2014. Steven Spielberg’s version might just have been better. If you’ve read anything about Nolan’s space epic in the...

Adaptations are hard. A poisoned chalice/holy grail for filmmakers that will have passionate fans wary of you, destroying something they love more than their own mothers. For remember, the "law" states the...

85 year old Chilean-French surrealist/mime/experimental playwright/author/comics writer/mystical therapist/artist/director/all-round fascinating guy Alejandro Jodorowsky recently premiered his first film in 23...

If there is one thing Paul Verhoeven knows how to do, it is create a huge action movie with bodies flying everywhere. If there is one thing Arnold Schwarzenegger knows how to do, it is be the person throwing...

From his marble throne Abraham Lincoln looked out across Washington, D.C. 250,000 men, woman and children were gathered before his memorial under the banner of equality and freedom, regardless of the colour of...

The last time there was a decent onscreen incarnation of the Last Son of Krypton, the year was 1980 and Christopher Reeve landed Hollywood's biggest deus ex machina on Lois Lane in the form of a mind-wipe...

Andrew Garfield, Marc Webb, Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi: what if Alain Resnais and Henry Winkler were added to that list? It seems improbable, but once upon a time the legendary director of the French New Wave...

In December, Peter Jackson will return to deliver his final instalment in the Hobbit trilogy. Regardless of whether you prefer the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings films, it has been a phenomenal achievement...