The moment a young Ray Harryhausen was taken to the cinema to watch the original 1933 version of King Kong and he was never the same again. He had been bitten by the special effects bug and the winner was ultimately going to be cinema. His career in old school special effects still wows film […]

Film Journalism is a strange biz to get into. Sure you make that leap because you like films – or at least certain films, but you soon come to realise that not everything that comes out of Hollywood glitters of gold or worse – you may have to report on something you completely disagree with. […]

Hollywood’s obsession with ancient Rome has spanned many decades and provided some epic adventures and dramas which have become classics of cinema. From the ultra-expensive Ben–Hur in 1925 and C.B. deMille’s works to Hollywood’s latest release The Eagle, it seems audience appetites haven’t wavered even if producers baulked at staging such mega productions. Whether its […]