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In the space of three short years, Ridley Scott redefined sci-fi cinema twice with Alien and Blade Runner. In the nearly 40 years since, countless films from a range of genres have owed enormous debts to these...

https://vimeo.com/214617676 In 2017 body image issues among young adults are a very real problem, with unrealistic beauty standards for women and men plastered across billboards and the media in...

"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...

Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding’s surreal and ingenious comedy world The Mighty Boosh took on radio, live stage shows, and three wonderful seasons of TV. With Barratt writing and starring in the excellent...

It’s exactly 20 years since the hugely quotable spoof superspy Austin Danger Powers first burst onto the big screen with the US release of his debut film International Man Of Mystery (it was released in the...

A Dog’s Purpose tells the story of Toby, a dog with the voice of the snowman from Frozen, who dies and is reincarnated four times in an attempt to reunite with his master. That’s pretty impressive loyalty,...

https://vimeo.com/189522268 Dystopias are a hot property right now; thankfully the genre deals in possibility (albeit the terrifying ones) and thus is hard to exhaust.  In Futur Sauvage, the future is...

With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 out this week, it’s worth taking a look at an unsung hero among the unsung heroes of the universe. Yes, the talking tree is cute and Andy Dwyer has abs and a star on the...

By reputation, Russian literary works are giants – War and Peace and Crime and Punishment are possibly the first to spring to mind among these classics, and their troubling psychological themes, large cast...

In 2016, DC had its true launch of its MCU-rivaling cinematic universe and, in doing so, made two films with obvious Marvel counterparts. They actually managed to beat the Feige machine to the Hero-vs-Hero...

http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/211551365 It’s not often that we see an entire film captured as one continuous shot, let alone by a drone. But it's likely that it's something we're going to be...

Anyone that's seen the trailer for The Transfiguration will know that it appears to be a lot more Let The Right One In than Twilight. Coming across as dark, bloody and completely inscrutable, it follows all...

Pure comedies don’t take much home come awards season. This makes sense if you're talking about the factory line of studio comedies, but in the case of Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz, it's an outrage. No comedy...

When awards season rolls round, romantic comedies generally don’t get to see much of the action. Since Annie Hall won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1978, only a select few have come close: Shakespeare in...

Hot Fuzz is full to the brim with scene-stealing talent. With Simon Pegg and Nick Frost at the helm in the second installment of their Cornetto Trilogy with Edgar Wright, they may be at the centre of some of...