6+ hour, 55+ min ago   (956+ words) Careers have turning points. Steven Spielberg’s was the film Duel. It was very nearly a bawdy comedy involving Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. Dig far enough back into the back catalogues of ‘respectable’ film directors, and there tends to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (420+ words) Ridley Scott admits that he thought Alien: Romulus was just “OK” and that he “we back and got involved.” More on the story here. News landed in the middle of last week that Ridley Scott was planning to return to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (685+ words) Almost a decade after Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott says he’s making a third prequel, which will again focus on Michael Fassbender’s David. Ridley Scott is again planning a return to the Alien universe, continuing threads he left behind with 2017’s Alien:…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (415+ words) The story of 1987’s Jaws: The Revenge is being explored in new documentary The Shark That Roared. Here’s the trailer and more info. Pah. You can keep all your talk of Steven Spielberg’s classic original Jaws movie. You want the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (992+ words) For years, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers has been accompanied by talk of political allegory. But its director had a different message in mind… If director Don Siegel had gotten his way, it wouldn’t even have been called Invasion Of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (418+ words) This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: director’s cuts, hostile takeovers, unlikely serial killers and much more. Here’s what we’ve been up to… With a new cut of the second X-Files movie dropping, AJ Black is joined by creator…...