by Simon Brew | Jan 03, 2025 | Feature, News
The 1991 spoof Hot Shots! found itself to a small degree mirroring the front pages of the newspapers - and 20th Century Fox was worried....
by James Harvey | Dec 24, 2024 | Feature, News
To make a multi-thread Christmas classic once is a misfortune - to make one twice starts to look like carelessness... We sat down with Richard Curtis...
by James Harvey | Dec 23, 2024 | Feature, News
Hamlet's first lion-based prequel has arrived in cinemas with less of a roar and more a meow - what the heck happened?...
by Simon Brew | Dec 23, 2024 | Feature
Writer, co-star and co-director Celyn Jones walks us down the long path to his new Rebel Wilson film: The Almond And The Seahorse…...
by Simon Brew | Dec 23, 2024 | Feature, News
A few words to the brilliant readers of Film Stories, as we come to the end of another year. Thank you so much for supporting us....
by Simon Brew | Dec 23, 2024 | Feature
If the Christmas and New Year period is particularly tough for you, a few words aimed in your direction. Thank you for reading....
by Rob Daniel | Dec 23, 2024 | Feature, News, TV
It's one of the least-liked episodes of the much-loved Only Fools And Horses - but the feature-length A Royal Flush had problems behind the scenes....
by Dan Cooper | Dec 20, 2024 | Feature
The early days of Hollywood saw plucky foley pioneers save audiences from a lifetime of boring sound design and create an art form which continues to...
by Mark Harrison | Dec 20, 2024 | Feature
How good's your memory of 2024 in film? Here's our film quiz of the year, covering the big movies and news stories of the past 12 months…...
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 20, 2024 | Feature
Directed by Justin Kurzel, The Order is the kind of thriller Hollywood used to make in the 1970s and 80s. The filmmaker talks to us about its...
by Tim Murray | Dec 19, 2024 | Feature
The Third Man is celebrating its 75th anniversary; to mark the occasion, StudioCanal brought original crew member Angela Allen along for a special...
by Film Stories | Dec 19, 2024 | Feature, News
The $300m Russo brothers Netflix film The Electric State has spent serious money on some things. Wigs very much included....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 19, 2024 | Feature, News
Kraven The Hunter? In 4DX? What could be more exciting? It turns out that ‘extreme sensory cinema’ and anxiety don’t mix…...
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 18, 2024 | Feature
As writer, director, producer, composer and co-star Viggo Mortensen delivers a personal take on the western genre with The Dead Don’t Hurt, Film S...
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 18, 2024 | Feature, News
With an emphasis on the low-budget, the genre-based, daring and imaginative, here’s our pick of the 31 best movies of 2024....
by Sarah Myers | Dec 18, 2024 | Feature
A few thoughts on the week or two ahead, as the world moves into Christmas and New Year mode. All in our Mental Health Matters spot....
by Zoe Dowsett | Dec 17, 2024 | Feature, News
How a Sussex-based community cinema became one of Europe’s most green-friendly arts venues....
by Amy Coop | Dec 17, 2024 | Feature
The granddaughter of Denys N Coop tells the cinematography pioneer's story, from The Third Man to Richard Donner's Superman....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 17, 2024 | Feature, News, TV
Murder, infidelity, gambling, and sinister bed and breakfasts. We rank the stories in Tales Of The Unexpected’s first series…...
by Maria Lattila | Dec 16, 2024 | Feature, News
Skeleton Crew has been warmly received by critics and audiences alike so far. Could the series be exactly what Star Wars needs right now? A few...
by James Harvey | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature, Interviews, News
Alastair Siddons hated making his first film – so he made his psychological teleshopping parody Up The Catalogue a little differently…...
by Stefania Sarrubba | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature, News
All bark, little bite: Nightbitch, and other horror films that don’t hit as hard as their source novels. Spoilers ahead......
by Mark Harrison | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature
Ho ho ho! It’s beginning to look a lot like Film Quiz Friday, so here’s 30 festive movie questions to get you in the Christmas spirit…...
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 12, 2024 | Feature, News
Politics and the apocalypse collide in Rumours - a horror satire that threatens to steal Megalopolis’ crown as 2024’s most eccentric movie....
by Simon Brew | Dec 11, 2024 | Feature, News
IMAX screens might just have given traditional Hollywood studios a way to push back against the power of Netflix. A few thoughts....
by Sarah Myers | Dec 11, 2024 | Feature
Huge trigger warnings for this piece, as our mental health chat this week goes into the topic of suicide....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 10, 2024 | Feature
The new trailer for director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland's horror sequel 28 Years Later is exceedingly good....
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 10, 2024 | Feature, News
A New Hope and the rest of the Star Wars trilogy may be preserved and pristine, but there’s something wonderfully tactile about the untouched t...
by Simon Brew | Dec 09, 2024 | Feature, News
Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray collectors are often willing to pay top dollar for releases of films - but they still deserve value for money....
by James Harvey | Dec 06, 2024 | Feature, News
In 2024, a film's TV debut is hardly ever an event to remember. Not so this Christmas, when the cinema event of the year might just premiere on the...
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 06, 2024 | Feature, News
Abel Ferrara’s sci-fi horror Body Snatchers was largely overlooked in 1993, but it’s aged remarkably well in the decades since....
by Mark Harrison | Dec 06, 2024 | Feature
Enter the multiverse of mad movie-title mashups in this week’s film quiz, which features 30 questions with answers smashed or unsmashed…...