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Following our retrospective of Ridley Scott's Alien and with Alien: Romulus still riding high at the box office, we take a look back at the second outing of the Xenomorphs in James Cameron's Aliens.

Some eagle-eyed movie buffs may have spotted that we have a new addition to the Alien franchise coming up soon - Alien: Romulus. In anticipation, let’s take a look back at four very different...

One is a darkly comic film noir. The other is an evergreen Technicolor musical. Yet taken together, Sunset Boulevard and Singin’ in the Rain form a consistent narrative about one of the greatest innovations to hit the movie...

The 1990s was a hugely successful time for American independent cinema and in 1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez took guerrilla film-making to its logical extreme. The result was The Blair Witch Project, a...

The Godfather is a rare thing: An artfully made crowd-pleaser that smashed it at the box office and delighted both critics and a mainstream audience. Over half a century since it premiered, Lee Adams takes...

Like any self-respecting series, we have now reached the point when it’s time to do a prequel! After our A to Z guides of cult movies from the ‘70s to the ‘90s, we now...