The long-awaited plans for Hollywood director Martin Scorsese’s biopic of entertainment icon Frank Sinatra appear to have bitten the dust. Scorsese admitted to The Toronto Sun that Sinatra’s estate was not open to the idea of creating a film to dramatise the life and times of one of the best-loved
By Fabian Broeker. Lost in Translation stems from an American cinematic tradition of fleeting romantic encounters between drifting protagonists, brought together by the enigma and wonder of the foreign city. One can easily draw parallels to Jesse and Celine’s saunter through Vienna in Before Sunrise or Joe Bradley’s encounter with a
The 12th year of Aberystwyth’s International Horror Festival had a distinct Giallo hue, with screenings of some of the sub-genre’s finest from Dario Argento and Mario Bava, as well as a live Q&A with legendary Demons director Lamberto Bava. But amongst the black gloves and bloodied blades there featured a host
Hi, my name is Daryl and in the 00s I was a Star Wars prequel apologist. I remember the cultural avalanche that built around The Phantom Menace. I spent my childhood watching battered VHS copies of the Original Trilogy taped off the telly. I loved that world and the escapism, creativity
Firearms in films have evolved massively overly the years. From the simple handgun through to the high-tech, futuristic death machines you now find in science fiction films, the Silver Screen has seen big developments. Below, we have looked at five of our favourite firearms from films, along with the gun in
