Why Michael Caine called himself “the original bourgeois nightmare”
His self-belief was shining through.
Author: Scott Campbell Archives: 05/2024
1954’s ‘Casino Royale’: The story of the first ever James Bond movie
The name’s Bond, American spy Jimmy Bond.
Is George Miller’s non-Mad Max career one of unrealised potential?
‘Mad Max’ is seminal stuff, but what about the rest of it?
“They look so beautiful, like a woman”: The symbolism of John Woo’s obsession with doves
It was a pigeon once, but it still counts.
The ‘number one nasty’: Why ‘The Evil Dead’ was banned in the UK
Pearls were being clutched nationwide.
How Jordan Peele pays tribute to horror masters in his movies
He’s happy to celebrate his inspirations.
Why Ron Howard thought ‘Star Wars’ would be terrible: “I couldn’t imagine what he was trying to do”
He was quick to catch on in the end.
“Weird genius”: the filmmaker Roger Ebert called the worst director of all time
He’s far from the only one to harbour that opinion.
The two movies Stephen King calls “the benchmark of awfulness”
A withering assessment from the iconic author.
“I can’t get enough of it”: the movie John Carpenter calls the perfect enigma
He found it to be a mesmerising experience.