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Micajah and Wiley Harpe, Murderers of the Western Frontier
War creates monsters, and not all monsters go away when the war does. Some still fight for their lost cause, some fight for their own survival, and some fight because they’ve discovered they love...
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Redmond O’Hanlon, Irish Outlaw
When you look at the witch-trial fever that swept over Europe in the 17th century, it’s noticeable how it largely left Ireland untouched. This wasn’t really because of greater tolerance on the part of...
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The Future Of The Past | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow at 15
I still remember when I saw the trailer for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I couldn’t tell you what film I was in the cinema to see, but I vividly recall watching a sepia-tinged airship crawl...
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40 Years In The Overlook Hotel | Looking Back At The Shining
There’s a joke I made about writing this article: “how do I make a film about people isolated together and one of them going mad topical today?” I thought about that joke while I was watching The...
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Darkman Turns 30 | The Genesis of Modern Superhero Movies
Nowadays, with Marvel’s cinematic juggernauts regularly blowing up the box office several times a year, it’s easy to forget that there was a time when “superhero movie” meant either kiddie fare or...
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Right Here, Right Now | Strange Days at 25
Realistic science fiction films, as a general rule, don’t age as well as fantastical space operas. When you set your film “fifteen minutes into the future” it’s hard for that to stay relevant when that...
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A Bridge To The Future: How Death Stranding Helped Me Cope With 2020
I don’t think anyone working on Death Stranding would have guessed that their game would be the perfect encapsulation of 2020. In fact, the game didn’t even initially release last year; the PS4 version...
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Nine Killed Her! Nine Shall Die! | The Abominable Dr Phibes Fifty Years On
The opening of The Abominable Dr Phibes feels like an unnerving dream. A mysterious figure robed and hooded in black plays the pipe organ for a mysterious beautiful woman, accompanied by an eerie...
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The Myth and the Magic | Clash of the Titans 40 Years Later
One of the most influential moments in the history of film took place in March of 1933, when a young Ray Harryhausen first saw the film King Kong. The primitive stop motion effects in the film...
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Call Me Snake | Escape From New York at 40
America has always feared its cities, and no city has inspired more fear than New York in the 1980s. From the 1960s onward crime rates gradually increased in the Big Apple, driven by ideologically...
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