We still don’t know what will be happening in the film, or how Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard – replicant or not – fits into the story. But now we know that, after years of it existing more as rumour than anything, the Blade Runner sequel will start shooting...
Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond died Jan. 1. Here, he poses in San Francisco, where he kept a part-time residence. (David Butow / For The Times) Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, whose work on classics such as “Close Encounters of the...
Ask horror-movie buffs to name their favorite decade for the genre, and you’ll likely receive a variety of answers. The ’30s had several of Universal’s classic roster of monsters. The ’40s had Val Lewton. The ’70s had zombies, and giant sharks, and Texas chain saw...
In Michael Winterbottom and Russell Brand’s documentary, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” the Hans Christian Andersen classic becomes an allegory for economic injustice: It proposes that the weavers from the bedtime story are analogous to...
Shining example … Peter Jackson gets down and dirty polishing his Oscars Hobbit director Peter Jackson has expertly trolled Doctor Who fans everywhere with a cheeky video hinting he might direct an episode of the show, while at the same time taking a crack at...
Far from being just a science-fiction author, Dick was also something of a mystic, having undergone numerous paranormal and spiritual experiences throughout his life. Part-autobiographical, VALIS explores the nature of reality from a Gnostic point of view, with the...
