Month: June 2013

The thing about zombie stories and movies is they’re not about the zombies, they’re about people, what they do in certain situations and what we would do as

In 1942, halfway through the Second World War, the USA gathered together the brightest minds they could find to take part in the Manhattan Project. Its purpose was

The second feature from writer/director Zal Batmanglij, as premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is once again a collaboration with actor/writer/producer Brit Marling, but while Sound of

Now in its 67th continuous year, the second under artistic director Chris Fujiwara, the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year boasts high profile premieres including forthcoming major releases

Beneath the brilliant halo of the new seasons of Doctor Who, even in this, the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of the show, it is easy to

How to reinvent an icon, known for seventy five years, recognised the world over, unmistakable, and crucially one who has been omnipresent in popular culture for all that

A thousand years have passed since the Earth was abandoned, the population transported to Nova Prime, a stark and desolate world of apparently no discernable variation in weather,

It is thirty two years since the final episode of Blake’s 7 left a generation of fans shocked and reeling, the rebellious freedom fighters finally cornered and decimated

While the three films that made up The Lord of the Rings were all critical and commercial successes, the trilogy that will comprise the prequel films have not

In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parchute into Kent, Britain’s best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed “Ack-Ack Macaque.” The trouble is. Ack-Ack Macaque