The attempt to turn Isaac Asimov’s sprawling and hugely influential Foundationsci-fi book trilogy is one that has frustrated filmmakers and studios for decades. It’s been mooted as a big screen project several times, but television – particularly the...
The team behind the crime classic reunited at the Tribeca film festival to celebrate the film’s 35th anniversary with some awkward moments When he declared that the world (and everything in it) was coming to him, the audience cheered. When he shot Robert Loggia (that...
The streaming giant has pulled its films out of competition at this year’s Cannes festival, leaving both sides feeling vindicated If you told a time-travelling film critic from, say, 2005 that today’s industry headlines are being dominated by a fierce corporate feud...
by Richard Beswick Overwriting is a common problem among beginners, but it happens to the best of them – ask a professional editor Most writers I know massively overwrite. How common is it for a published author to have had an editor do a big cutting job? Retired...
Few films of its period presented a more intelligent, plausible and chilling depiction of the destructive potential of atomic power than director Val Guest’s gripping excursion into apocalyptic cinema. A down-on-his luck journalist investigates the reasons behind the...
In October 1955, shortly after Hammer Films had released their film adaptation of the Nigel Kneale television series The Quatermass Experiment, the BBC began broadcasting the sequel Quatermass II, with Professor Bernard Quatermass once again saving the Earth from an...
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