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...
Terry Gilliamhas been pushing the Don Quixote boulder up the hill for more than two decades, enduring abandoned shoots, dodgy producers, financial complications and casting changes. After all that, he’s finally about to unveil The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,...
By Ben Dowell Hard Sun, the BBC apocalyptic crime thriller starring Agyness Deyn and Jim Sturgess, proved a tough watch in episode one with multiple stabbings, shootings and punch-ups. But if you’re enjoying the drama – if “enjoying” is the right word – then prepare...
