Roger Corman
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Joe Dante: You have to give a movie time to age, like wine
- Film
- October 20, 2020, 05:00
Joe Dante’s entry into the film business was so cartoonish it might easily be a scene from a Joe Dante movie. Arriving in California as an aspiring ed(...)

Black Water: Abyss – The first cinema release in months. It must be a great movie, right?
- Film
- July 8, 2020, 10:18
More than a few undistinguished films have (for trivia buffs, anyway) gained a smidgeon of unexpected significance during the Covid era. Two horror fl(...)

The box-office champ of early summer is a drive-in theatre hit
- Culture
- June 6, 2020, 05:00
All hail the box-office champ of early summer. All hail a film you probably haven’t heard of. Sports enthusiasts are familiar with the asterisks that(...)

Scooby-Doo is 50: Yes it really was all about drugs
- Culture
- September 21, 2019, 05:00
Imagine an alternative universe in which children’s television of the early 1990s was taken up with references to ecstasy. The Adventures of Mandy and(...)

Nothing boosts the cinema experience like a mass walkout
- Culture
- September 7, 2019, 06:06
There’s so much to the theatrical experience that you can’t get from a watching a film on even the biggest television. The communal buzz. The envelopi(...)

With another Matrix film, maybe we really are living in a simulation
- Culture
- August 24, 2019, 05:00
Somewhere out there a scientist is visiting a cruel experiment on blameless baboons. Every time the ape sticks his finger in the hole on the left he g(...)

Peter Fonda: Henry’s estranged son, Jane’s ‘sweet baby brother’, Bridget’s less famous dad
- Film
- August 19, 2019, 17:11
The rebels of the 1960s are beginning to die of something like old age. Peter Fonda – who has died aged 79 – was nearly 30 when Easy Rider emerged in (...)

Easy Rider at 50: ‘Unwatchable’ – unless you’re stoned
- Film
- July 16, 2019, 13:30
The 1960s began 50 years ago this week. Okay, we may be a few years off the mark. That decade may have begun with the release of Bonnie and Clyde two (...)

Ron Howard: ‘Bono said Pavarotti was an emotional arm wrestler – he’d break your f**king arm’
- Film
- July 12, 2019, 06:00
Ron Howard has won two Academy Awards. He has directed smash hits such as Cocoon and The Da Vinci Code. Many years ago, he starred as Richie Cunningha(...)

Robert Rodriguez: ‘I don’t live in Hollywood. There’s nobody to tell me I’m doing it wrong’
- Film
- February 6, 2019
Robert Rodriguez made ‘El Mariachi’ for $7,000. His new film, ‘Alita: Battle Angel’, made with his pal James Cameron, cost $200m. ‘They’re get(...)