Interviews

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 ...

“Giaco (Furino) and I really wanted to make a movie that clashes 80s’ punk movies and slashers, and has these outrageous characters in this heightened comic book world. However, we wanted to circle it all around this character study of ...