Interviews

“I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering. Or, perhaps, I cannot now bring these ...

Great performative art is one that is often built like the most nourishing and simultaneously decadent layer cake. This is exactly the image and sentiment I felt when I first heard about Jeffrey Combs, an actor near and dear to ...

Hudlin has enjoyed a long and prosperous career and now, thankfully, Hollywood is taking notice.

If I am being completely honest I can’t say whether it was the star name of Coral Browne or the fact that the play’s title had the word fucking, albeit with three asterisks replacing the u, c and k, in ...

Today auteur Quentin Tarantino unleashes his latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, on American audiences. To coincide with this release, I would like to take a look back at the filmmaker’s earliest effort, a $5,000 unfinished Howard Hawks-esque ...

Coming off two successful films with a significant cult following (Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99), screenwriter/director S. Craig Zahler seemed like a guy who could do no wrong. And then he did, even though he didn’t really. ...

Photo credit: Mark Senior. It was early January when I received the invitation. Did I fancy taking a trip into a sub Arctic central London to sit under a dank railway arch beneath Waterloo Station, while the trains packed with ...

Michael Winner’s Scream For Help (1984) is a thoroughly enjoyable – as well as nutsy – hybrid of a Nancy Drew style mystery, a psycho-thriller that has gas lighting on the agenda and a contemporary slasher (which were all the ...

Hasbro! Kenner! Mattel! You know them! They’re those companies that made My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Star Wars, Barbie, and any and every movie tie-in toy. Police Academy toys?? YEAH, actually I DO want that — THANKS, KENNER! I ...

This past year saw the reemergence of Spike Lee as a filmmaking powerhouse with his latest effort BlackKklansman, the true story of a black cop’s unlikely integration into the Ku Klux Klan. With the critical success of Klansman, many people ...