Sir Ridley Scott has always been a highly respected director, and his films always generate a certain amount of excitement, although the quality of his movies has been, in the most polite way, hit-or-miss. Starting out strong with The Duellists, Alien, and Blade Runner, there are some films that equal those now classics (Gladiator, Thelma…
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One Night Only
In Hollywood, a web platform lets writers submit their work for executives to vote on the best unproduced screenplays. In the past, films like Juno and The Imitation Game topped the site, so we are looking at quality work that eventually was made. I have a question. How did One Night Only get to be…
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
The slasher horrors of the 80s are often easy targets to ridicule due to the ridiculousness of their premises, particularly the Friday the 13th series. Yet no one has ever approached the popular horrors as a way to deal with the nature of the films, the sexual chaos of the franchise or even how they…
Coyote Vs Acme
Some films are never sure things, even after they’re completed. Coyote Vs Acme is one such film. Made back in 2023, it was shelved by Warner Bros Discovery as a tax write-off. However, Ketchup Entertainment managed to buy the rights and saved the film from never being seen, and we can thank them for doing…
The End Of Oak Street
Imagine, if you can, waking up to find your suburban street has been taken over by dinosaurs. Well, that’s the basic premise of writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s adventure film, which has more than a touch of Steven Spielberg about it. It is easy to do that, considering that Spielberg directed one of the greatest dinosaur…
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Someone recently said that the superhero movie was done and dusted, that public fatigue had grown, which is why films like Supergirl had failed miserably. Well, looking at the box office takings of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, it seems that there is still a hunger for the web-slinger. This fourth outing for the current incarnation…
The Odyssey
It used to be the case that a film star’s name attached to a project would open a movie, making it a guaranteed box-office winner. Occasionally, a director would have that same effect. Christopher Nolan has become one of those directors. His films tend to open big. Not saying that they aren’t always great. For…
Moana
When Disney released Moana ten years ago, I raved about it. I thought it was the best animated feature they had produced in years, a colourful, diverse and different tale that didn’t follow the usual path of the female-led adventures, but had an independently minded young woman taking on the dangers of gods, demigods and…
Supergirl
When it was announced that Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn was becoming co-head of DC Studios, after the mixed reaction to Zack Snyder’s Batman/Superman movies, there was hope that having a man who obviously has a love for comic books and superhero characters would bring a fresh and exciting new realm that could…
Toy Story 5
About half way through watching Toy Story 5, my thoughts went to what made Toy Story 3 such a classic, and in particular, that moment when the floodgates were open and tears streamed down my face, and I wondered how a simple scene in which a group of toys, facing their ultimate doom and just…
Disclosure Day
Steven Spielberg is, without a doubt, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His CV is littered with great movies, and he’s been at the top of his game ever since his debut feature, Duel, back in 1971. What gets people excited is his sci-fi films, after such monster smashes as Close Encounters of…
Scary Movie
The legendary film critic Barry Norman once said of a movie, “Laugh? I thought I’d never start!” That is exactly how I felt about this sixth instalment of the spoof comedy (?) that I thought had died a death after number 5 back in 2013. Now the Wayans, who made the first two films, are…
Stu Loves Film 