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Tank Girl was barely a blip on the radar when it was released in 1995. It flopped both with critics and audiences, only recouping in US$6 million of its $25 million production budget. Critics tended to agree on its faults: ...

Adapting one of the most iconic silent films into a new SF novel sounds like a bizarre idea – or at least it did to me. But then again, reboots seem to be all Hollywood can manage these days, so ...

The books and the 1980s adaptation of L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series of novels were staples of my childhood. Anne was one of the first weirdos I encountered in fiction and I thought of her as a kindred spirit. ...

Doing a comic book adaptation of a novel must be a huge undertaking. There’s an awful lot of content crammed into a novel’s pages, much of which is subtle and doesn’t necessarily fit well with graphic representation and limited dialogue/text ...

As the credits rolled and the house lights came up, I realised something – I was the only person in the theatre not crying. People of all ages were sobbing and wiping their eyes, couples were holding each other… I ...

Without question, The Muppet Christmas Carol is the greatest Christmas film ever made. People from all walks of life and distressingly opposing views will converge upon this one universal fact. Can you pick fault in a film like this? No, I don’t ...

Within three years, Ridley Scott created one of the best science fiction films of all time and one of the worst fantasy films. How did this happen? What was he thinking? And why was Legend (1985) so awful? When the ...

This hasn’t been a good year for me. Two of my idols have died (Prince and Bowie). If there can be a silver lining to the death of an admired genius, it’s that Bowie’s films are being remastered, The Man ...

Myths and fairytales were created as a means to explain the world around us, to warn children not to stray off the path, and to find meaning in tragic events. For instance, before science could provide answers to how the ...

As a big fan of the classic comic books series Preacher, I was excited by the prospect of a television adaptation, especially with such a stellar cast. But when the show aired, like many other die-hard fans, I couldn’t help notice ...