Features

Four Frames: Petrol station attack in The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock 1963)

Reel World: Zombiefest


Brilliant Failures: The Prowler (AKA Rosemary’s Killer) (Dir. Joseph Zito, 1981)


Reader Competition: Movie Maths


Screengem: Bingham’s Backpack (Up in the Air, 2009)


One Sheet: The Girl Who Played With Fire (Dir. Daniel Alfredson, 2009)


Four Frames: The Long Day Closes (Dir. Terence Davies, 1992)


Lost Classic: The Hill (Dir. Sidney Lumet, 1965)


Lost Classic: Destry Rides Again (Dir. George Marshall, 1939)


Spotlight: On the Road Around the World


1000 Words: ‘Hang on a minute lads … I’ve got a great idea’


Screengem: Willie's Beret in Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)


Brilliant Failure: Dust Devil (Richard Stanley, 1992)


Brilliant Failure: Immortal (Ad Vitam) (Enki Bilal, 2004)


Screengem: The V8 Interceptor (The Road Warrior, 1981)


Poster Boy: One sheets of distinction (vol.4)


Reader Competition: Movie Maths


Spotlight: six British road movies worth seeking out


Reel World: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


Fatal Attraction Part 2: The French Connection


Reel World: Quadrophenia


The Score: The Mission (Composed by Ennio Morricone, 1986)


Fatal Attraction Part 1: Classic Hollywood noir villainesses


One Sheet: Saul Bass, master of simplicity


On Location: New Jersey


Widescreen: Bullet scarred outdoor cinema (Kabul, Afghanistan)


Screengem: Ol’ Painless (Predator, 1987)


Spotlight: Almost Human


Screengem: Carlin’s Cosh (Scum, 1979)


All that we see and seem: cinematic false awakenings


Screengem: Tattoo You


Spotlight: Emotionless Assassins


Spotlight: Mamma Mia! - Cinema’s most maniacal matriarchs (part 2)


Screengem: Seth Brundle's Telepods


Art & Film: Jersey Boy Part 3 (in discussion with painter and poet Michael Medina)


Spotlight: Red Planet (Science fiction films of the cold war era)


Art & Film: Jersey Boy Part 2 (in discussion with painter and poet Michael Medina)


Dark Portraits: The photographs of Amanda Norman (part 2)


Dark Portraits: The photographs of Amanda Norman


Getting closer: Overuse of the photo-zoom clue in movies


The beast within: The Devil and the Coen Brothers


On Location (Disaster Shoot): Twilight Zone: The Movie


Go-Motion animation: it was all just a blur


Screengem: The Wicker Man


Adapt or die: a very mixed bag of Ray Bradbury movies


The Score: Rambo: First Blood Part II (Composer: Jerry Goldsmith, 1985)


On Location: Still Shining after 30 years


Screengem: Charlie's Golden Ticket


Now appearing: the thin air of the imaginary friend


Screengem: Indiana Jones’s Hat


The Score: Psycho (Composer: Bernard Herrmann, 1960)


Local colour: researching early British colour films


Parting Shot: The Dance of the Bread Rolls


In Bloom: Black & White and Colour in Collaboration


Popcorn and politics: the favourite movies of our glorious leaders


Titus (Composer: Elliot Goldenthal, 1999)


1000 Words: You talkin’ to me? A short history of the subjective point-of-view shot


The Godfather Poster: Re-imagined


Dearly departed: A theory on queer stereotypes in film


Spotlight: Family Affairs Part II


Poster Boy: One sheets of distinction (vol.3)


Screengem: Michael Myers’ Mask in Halloween (1978)


Screengem: The Sled in Citizen Kane (1941)


Ronnie Biggs the Movie?


Really most sincerely dead?: the myth of the hanging Munchkin


If a film wins an Oscar, but nobody saw it, does it make a sound?


A certain ratio: regarding Welles’ ‘ribbon of dreams’


I love the smell of sweaty socks in the evening: Al fresco scratch 'n' sniff at Edinburgh's Big Screen


Better than a poke in the eye: adventures in 3D moviegoing


Auteurgeddon? Why reports of the death of the auteur are greatly exaggerated


Parting Shot: Charting the origin of iconic movie scenes


Poster Boy: One sheets of distinction (vol. 2)


On Location: Disaster Shoot - Apocalypse Now (1979)


Screengem: Evocative Objects in Film no.2 / The Neuralyzer


Screengems: Evocative Objects in Film no.1 The Proton Pack


Spotlight on: Hollywood’s Vampires and Slayers - Representation and genre shifting


Once more with feeling: Musicians in the movies


‘Have You Anything Against Youth?’ – 50 Years of Breathless


Shots in the dark: Evocative images in British film


Poster Boy: One sheets of distinction


The kids are alright


All talk: My Dinner with André and the art of filming conversation


An eye on the exits: Great film endings


Ace in the hole: your guide to anal fixation in Psycho


The Up-lifting inspiration for Pixar


Odd fish in the painted ocean


Accounting for taste (or ‘You like what??!’)


The modern Bank Holiday movie: ‘move along please, nothing to see here’


Death of the Cut: The changing face of film censorship


The ‘Golden Era’ of 3D


How was it for you?


The Day The Earth Cried ‘Please, No Remake!’


A New Sound at the Cinema


"Again" – Why did the Coen brothers develop a taste for Swiss cigarettes?


My Brother the film star