I really like video games, and I really like movies and TV shows based on video games, and I like it when those adaptations are not contemptuous of gaming. Some film versions take the video game...
Since starting this column I’ve seen some really great book adaptations, but as a rule of thumb I usually find the books to be (even just marginally) better than their film or TV adaptations. Films...
Kurt Russell’s eyes are wired. Those baby blues are ringed with red, the Disney child paranoid, sweating booze and armed to the teeth. Those jump cuts are making us anxious from the off. We’re...
With the ongoing battle for the soul of humanity versus the trillionaire far-right tech barons, it seems timely to revisit a largely forgotten film that was the first to seriously confront our online...
It is remarkably arrogant to tell an artist what her work is supposed to represent, especially when she has – very clearly – stated otherwise. A work of art may evoke thoughts, feelings or...
35 years later, Wes Craven's best movie is also one of his least well known, and it's well worth dusting off the VHS off in our current Trumpian nightmare. The People Under the Stairs is an urban...
Who exactly are they? Are they your parents coming home from holiday early before you’ve had a chance to clean up that party? Are they that mythical collective used for rumours, misinformation, the...
After a busy March, TV networks and streaming platforms are stepping up their game with stories ranging from pure suspense to returns that are already dominating the conversation on social media....
Millennial nostalgia creeps up on you slowly. One day, you notice that the music you used to listen to in middle school - and perhaps even thought of as transgressive - is playing at the grocery...
Motormouth Marty Mauser is a grade-A shit heel. A 1950s hustler with a tommy gun delivery who won’t take no for an answer. He’s a lithe, wiry, fuck stick, spidering his way through New York city...
