Bruce Lee: weird, gruesome and oh-so-cool
Every cinema-loving person has a favourite Bruce Lee moment. My own comes towards the end of Enter the Dragon, the…
Don’t believe the sales figures – DVDs are thriving
According to the accountants’ ledgers, DVDs are dying. Sales of those shiny discs, along with their shinier sibling the Blu-ray,…
With the release of Oculus Rift, cinema will never be the same again
With the release of Oculus Rift – virtual reality you can buy from a shop – cinema will never be the same again, says Peter Hoskin
How Technicolor conquered cinema
Peter Hoskin celebrates Technicolor’s 100th birthday
By, with, of and for Kim Kardashian — keeping up with Kulture
The almond eyes that rise towards their outer edges. The cheekbones that curve down to the corners of those upholstered…
How gaming grew up
Sometimes a guy feels abstracted from the world. He visits Europe’s finest galleries, but the paintings seem to hang like…
How Japan became a pop culture superpower
Peter Hoskin on the island nation that has taken over popular culture
Without sci-fi, there would be no cinema
Without sci-fi, there would be no cinema, writes Peter Hoskin
20,000 Days On Earth: is Nick Cave the missing link? Or the next stage in evolution?
Inspired by Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never (2011), Katy Perry’s Part of Me (2012) and One Direction’s This Is Us…
Ignore the simplistic politics, Pride will make you laugh and cry
1984 and all that. Which side were you on? The side of Margaret Thatcher, her hairdo and person standing rigid…
Lucy: the shoot-outs, car chases and mysteries of the universe
Here’s an idea for an article: The Tree of Life (2011) is the most influential film of the past decade.…
A comic drawn by Bob Monkhouse in which a superhero battles giant penises? Yes, it’s all here
Fwoooosh! That, were someone to write a strip about it, would be the sound of a thousand comic books going…
I suspected Maleficent would be terrible from the very first shot
If a gang of knife-wielding toddlers ever presses you for the name of the best Disney film, Sleeping Beauty (1959)…
Batman: from midnight monster to pop-tacular star. Kapow!
Batman is 75. Peter Hoskin considers the septuagenarian’s enduring appeal
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Too much bang-bang, not enough kiss-kiss
Have you seen that pizza with a cheeseburger crust? If not, just imagine a normal pizza, except where the pizza…
Bury every copy of Monuments Men in mines across Europe, so George Clooney can try again
You know that old quip ‘I’m not just a pretty face’? I always thought it was meant to be said…
Is Hollywood finally waking up to the talents of women? Nah
Is Hollywood finally waking up to the talents of women directors? Peter Hoskin doubts it
Jennifer Lawrence is plain brilliant in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
In the future, everyone will have silly names. Some people will be called Haymitch Abernathy. Others will be Effie Trinket…
How I learned to start screaming and love the horror movie
Peter Hoskin looks forward to being scared witless courtesy of the BFI’s feast of Gothic cinema
No rest for Diana - the biopic of the late princess is so inept it's not even hagiography
Someone who knows their Dianaology will have to fill me in – did this actually happen? The late Princess Di…
White House Down is Roland Emmerich’s Hedda Gabler
Just do it, quoth the Nike advert — and these men just did it. Grass, asphalt, fear, pain, doubt and…
Another Self-Portrait isn't just for the Bobsessives
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
Climb aboard the runaway train
Brother, can you spare me a train? Or maybe just a Pullman carriage or two? There are so many brilliant…
