Nostalgia

Two decades on, The Phantom Menace remains the most infamously maligned entry in the ever-expanding Star Wars series. Following the beloved saga's hyped return in 1999 with a monumental and highly marketed...

Pairing the director who calls monsters “the patron saints of our blissful imperfection”, and a comic series about a cat-loving, cigar-smoking demon was a match made in heaven. Though Marvel and DC have...

15 years ago, the team behind cult Channel 4 sitcom Spaced released their love letter to zombie films, Shaun of the Dead. While it had all the jumps, scares, and apocalyptic doom of a great zombie movie, it...

Twenty years ago Heath Ledger danced his way down some bleachers and into film legend with an enthusiastic rendition of ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’. Its lack of vocal finesse coupled with a total...

San Dimas, 1988. Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winters) and Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves) don’t know it yet, but they’re destined for greatness. Their band Wyld Stallyns may be awful now, but by...

After an eight-year gap, Joe Cornish finally returns to the silver screen with his sophomore feature, The Kid Who Would Be King. What better time than this to look back at his debut feature, Attack the...

In 2015, one of the great chapters of British comedy closed. The ninth series of Peep Show finished on a high and a low, keeping David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s Mark and Jeremy in the same bleak,...

By the end of Mary Poppins, it's easy to mistake its warmth for simplicity. As moving as it is, it's basic as all hell: two hours and 20 minutes just build up to George Banks learning a lesson and embracing...

Today, it may be a truth universally acknowledged that the internet is Dark and Full of Terrors – but it wasn’t always this way. 20 years ago, Nora Ephron beckoned audiences into a beautiful fantasy world,...

Lawrence of Arabia is often remembered for its immense scale, staggeringly large and well-coordinated set pieces, and other such enormities – like the 258-day shooting time. But a less-often mentioned aspect...

The story of Robin Hood is a story of remakes. The character has evolved in countless ways since his origins in (maybe) 14th-century folk ballads. Familiar elements of the legend – Maid Marian, the Sheriff...

Creating horror remakes is often a thankless job. Taking familiar intellectual properties with built-in audience recognition and repackaging them with a little more sex or violence than the originals were...

Like the great Michael Myers himself, you can never really kill a horror franchise. This month, 40 years after the original slashed its way onto movie screens and into our hearts, Halloween returns. Pointedly...

Screenwriter extraordinaire Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, World War Z, The Martian) is back with his second feature as a director, Bad Times at the El Royale. His latest finds a group of strangers unravelling a...

Rushmore is 20 years old. Even with a two-decade legacy that reaches into cinema’s hallowed history to map out its future, Wes Anderson’s singular screwball tale of love, betrayal and extracurricular...