Nostalgia

The Last Jedi is going to make Rian Johnson a star. Since Summer 2014, the film world has waited in heady anticipation for not only the true follow-up to legendary sequel Empire Strikes Back, but also this...

Every sequel ever made is royally screwed. Those poor filmmakers can go back to their hit movies with the purest intentions and the best bundle of influences, but how many second instalments can really hold a...

 “The Room is the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” – Ross Morin, Entertainment Weekly Nearly five years ago, we began The Citizen Kane of Awful, a series looking at the best worst films ever made. The...

The Room began with a dream, and a bundle of leather jackets. Tommy Wiseau set out to tell the story of Johnny, a hapless man struggling to keep his future marriage afloat, but in the process became a story in...

Rob Reiner's classic fantasy movie The Princess Bride (based on William Goldman's immortal novel) is 30 years old this month. Despite being only a modest success at the box office on its release, the film...

In 2008 Destin Daniel Cretton made a short film called Short Term 12. Five years later he developed it into a feature of the same name, which despite being relatively unknown has garnered a huge amount of...

A cursory look through the litany of reviews on its Rotten Tomatoes page will tell you that opinions on Darren Aronofsky's Noah are hardly ambivalent. And it would, admittedly, be wrong to deny that the film...

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn Director: Roland Emmerich Writers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich Estimated Budget: $130 million US Gross: $136...

While the Wachowskis have previously found success with films like The Matrix and V for Vendetta (and an arguable, if baffling, masterpiece in Cloud Atlas), Jupiter Ascending garnered lukewarm reviews at best...

Doug Liman doesn’t release that many films, so you would hope that each new release would be a beautifully polished diamond of the highest quality. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always appear to be the case....

Randomly select any episode from Seasons 3 through 8 of The Simpsons and you’ll most likely be greeted with one of the best episodes of TV comedy you could ever hope to see. Randomly select any episode from...

Have a quick think about your memories of the first Men in Black film. What immediately comes to mind is likely to include sharp suits, sunglasses, big-ass silver guns (and a certain tiny one), odd-couple...

It’s no exaggeration to say that the superhero movie is one of the most popular (and profitable) forms of entertainment today. Leading the charge – both in quantity and quality – is Marvel Studios....

These days there is seemingly no movie that can't be shoehorned into a cinematic universe. Following the mammoth success of Marvel Studios, Universal has decided to reboot their old monster movie classics into...

It’s fair to say that Superman’s outings on the big screen over the years have been to varying degrees of success. Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980) were both, generally speaking, excellent works –...