Tagged Robert Zemeckis

30 years after Nicolas Roeg’s terrifying take on The Witches comes Robert Zemeckis’ 2020 version. With the 1990 version still much-loved (and much-feared), Zemeckis had quite a hurdle to get over, and...

Jeff Malmberg’s 2010 film Marwencol should be far more available than it is. The DVD is strangely hard to come by, at least in the UK, while digital copies can be rented or purchased from iTunes, but not...

Steve Carell continues his fine run of dramatic turns in this seemingly whimsical yet serious study of trauma. He portrays Mark Hogancamp, an artist badly beaten in a gang assault who creates his own therapy...

1. Money, Money, Money begets Mo’ Money, Money, Money Mamma Mia! is getting! a sequel! And while nobody really called for it, excepting ABBA’s accountants, we’d be lying if we said we weren’t game....

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...

Subterfuge and seduction are a hair’s width apart in this tense thriller from veteran director Robert Zemeckis. As first collaborating field agents, and then lovers, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard...

Perhaps it’s a sign of how truly apocalyptic 2016 has felt that the year ends with two science-fiction thrillers, turning the lens away from the real dilemmas to focus on something a little more...

The Weekly Report All news contained herein corresponds to the world of film. The Weekly Report will seek to cover general film news that has emerged over the last seven days. Netflix to fund Will...

In many respects, Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is Mr Hollywood. He has starred in some of the most critically acclaimed films of the last 25 years, bagging a couple of Oscars along the way. Beyond his acting work...

Robert Zemeckis has forged a career from never being far from the latest in cinematic technology, and following forays into performance capture animation, he now makes his bow into live-action 3D filmmaking...

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...

It started with a Reddit post. Alright, let's go back a bit – technically it really began in 1986 with a novel by Winston Groom – but the point remains. If you google "Jenny from Forrest Gump", one of...