95 Years Ago, One Crime Thriller Masterpiece Launched The Serial Killer Genre Fritz Lang's 'M' is rightfully remembered for its innovations as a procedural thriller, and even today, its influence looms large. Inverse · May 12
New Scrubs, Muppets and Lord of the Flies: what’s new to streaming in Australia in February Plus Jurassic World Rebirth, Paul McCartney documentary Man on the Run, and a sharply observed dramedy about open marriages The Guardian - AU · Feb 3
New year, old warnings: what can films set in 2026 teach us? From Doom and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes to Metropolis, Hollywood hasn’t predicted the most stable of years ahead The Guardian - US · Jan 2
40 Collector’s Items So Rare, They’re Practically Priceless Want to know which rare item is worth over $450 million today? Bored Panda · Jul 14, 2025
TV tonight: the extraordinary story of the baroness and the Covid scandal The downfall of the lingerie entrepreneur accused of making millions from taxpayers for PPE. Plus: David Frost takes on Moshe Dayan. Here’s what to watch this evening The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2025
Companion review: this sleek but violent film asks interesting ethical questions about our relationship with AI Science fiction film and television has long been fascinated by robots. But stories that show us uncannily human cyborgs have often tended to veer towards either comedy or horror. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) both imagine a world where beautiful female cyborgs threaten to overstep… The Conversation · Feb 5, 2025
95 Years Ago, a Legendary Director's Innovative Sci-Fi Movie Eerily Predicted the Space Race Forty years before man walked on the moon, Fritz Lang depicted space travel as a shocking reality. Inverse · Oct 16, 2024
100 Years Ago, a Forgotten Russian Epic Secretly Inspired the the Most Iconic Sci-Fi Movie Ever Science fiction would look completely different without Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis,' but the famous German epic wasn't born out of thin air. Inverse · Sep 24, 2024
32 movies that revolutionized VFX These landmark movies took VFX to the bleeding edge Total Film · Aug 19, 2024
Janelle Monáe: ‘I have to feel a film role in my pubic hairs. They have to vibrate’ As she prepares for a UK tour – including Glastonbury – the singer and actor answers your questions on Prince, what makes her blush, and why we shouldn’t ostracise AI The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2024
20 best film noirs: From The Big Heat to Sunset Boulevard Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2023
Hypnotic and the best conspiracy thrillers The enjoyably daft sci-fi twister starring Ben Affleck is a good jumping-off point for classic intrigues ranging from The 39 Steps and JFK to Soylent Green and The Net The Guardian - UK · Aug 5, 2023
Writers protest strikes out Melbourne mega-series Metropolis Metropolis, a series that was set to be filmed in Victoria has been scrapped due to the ongoing writer's strike. The New Daily · Jun 20, 2023
Apple TV+ remake of sci-fi classic Metropolis cancelled due to US writers’ strike The $188m eight-part series was to be filmed in Melbourne but has been shelved because of ‘push costs and uncertainty’ The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2023
The New Daily · Feb 11, 2023 Australia cashing in on a gold rush as Hollywood makes big-budget films in three states Industry bosses share their excitement of the future of Made-in-Australia film and television productions as country enters a gold-rush era
Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 30, 2022 Last Sherlock Holmes work among 2023 public domain books, movies, music The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of a whipsmart detective will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expiring Jan. 1 include Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes work.
The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2022 2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023
Evening Standard · Sep 13, 2022 Jean-Luc Godard death: From Breathless to Contempt, his most famous and important works “The cinema is truth 24 times per second,” said the iconoclastic film director
The Independent UK · Jun 17, 2022 20 best film noirs: From Double Indemnity to Shadow of a Doubt Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era
The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2022 Brave New World by Fred Fordham review – brilliant Huxley reboot This rip-roaring graphic retelling of the Aldous Huxley classic brings to mind Fritz Lang, Spielberg and vintage comics
The Guardian - US · Mar 28, 2022 My streaming gem: why you should watch Scarlet Street The latest in our series of writers highlighting lesser-known gems available to stream is a recommendation of a tragic, heartbreaking noir