In the colossal 21st episode of The Film ‘89 Podcast, Richie, Haydn & Skye take an in-depth look back at director Steven Spielberg’s big-screen adaptation of author Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park… Continue reading "The Film ‘89 Podcast Episode 21 – When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth – Celebrating 25 Years of Jurassic Park."
Towards the end of the 1980s, Director Wes Craven could look back at a decade which established him as one of the horror maestros of the modern age. He’d achieved… Continue reading "Wes Craven’s Shocker (1989)."
Steve McQueen’s latest picture plays like a response to the oft-criticised (and maybe sometimes not criticised enough) treatment of women in film as motives for change or trauma in the… Continue reading "Widows (2018)."
It’s fitting that Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s profoundly impactful science-fiction masterpiece, is getting an anime series given its significant impact on Japanese animation. U.S. cable network Adult Swim is partnering… Continue reading "‘Blade Runner – Black Lotus’ Anime in development."
Vincent Freeman, played by Ethan Hawke, narrates a childhood during which he, as an invalid, would swim out to sea with his brother to see who could go the furthest.… Continue reading "Gattaca (1997)."
In Episode 20 of The Film ‘89 Podcast we’re joined by cinephile extraordinaire, champion of the Blu-Ray format and physical media, frequent guest-host of the Wrong Reel Podcast, Criterion Cast… Continue reading "The Film ‘89 Podcast Episode 20 – Celebrating 60 Years of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958)."
Creed is perhaps a telling film for me in more ways than one. As a member of the Film ‘89 Team, I will frequently end up in conversations with the… Continue reading "Creed (2015)."
Until 1990’s Rocky V, Rocky Balboa had always been the one guy that Sylvester Stallone could rely on to bring him box office success. Whilst the fifth (and that time,… Continue reading "Rocky Balboa (2006)."
*** SPOILERS *** When I first saw the trailer for director Ali Abbasi’s Swedish film Border, I was instantly intrigued. The film centers on Tina a customs border agent who… Continue reading "Border (2018)."
With the ending to the fourth film all but cementing the legacy of the character of Rocky Balboa as pretty much an unstoppable force, there was apparently nowhere left to… Continue reading "Rocky V (1990)."
