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The very first movie to adapt a video game was such a disaster that it took three decades for Hollywood to get back on track. This is the story of 'Super Mario Bros' (1993).

The film director tells Michael Hogan about hating hitting 50, love’s golden ticket, deep-fried jam sandwiches and people struggling on the breadline

Cinematographer who played a key role in bringing a dreamlike quality to many scenes in the BBC drama Pennies from Heaven

On paper, Nintendo’s new animated film is a fittingly reverent ode to one of gaming’s seminal franchises. But you can only devour so many Easter eggs before growing nauseous, writes Louis Chilton

The Superbad star explains his own personal disappointment around the original Super Mario Bros. Adaptation.

As the new film lands on a big screen near you, Imy Brighty-Potts explores the history of the mustachioed hero – and asks why he is so lovable.

Video game content is coming of age.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. But it is also, if I check the clock, Mario Time. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” with its vistas of primary colors, is here to brighten our dreary…

Thirty years ago, the very first cinematic adaptation of a video game hit theaters. “Super Mario Bros.” based on the 1985 Nintendo game created by Shigeru Miyamoto didn’t exactly bring the game to life as much as it extrapolated a nightmarish cyberpunk world from its characters. “Max Headroom” directors Rocky…

Bob Hoskins called the original Nintendo spin-off the ‘worst thing I ever did’, which has set the tone for video game movies ever since – can this latest effort buck the trend?

Film and television director whose work included the BBC’s 1978 Dennis Potter series Pennies From Heaven