Brad Bird interview: Mission: Impossible, The Iron Giant, Die Hard, fast edits and movie music

Simon Brew

I compared Die Hard with one of the sequels. One of them was directed, and the other one there was a lot of coverage that was then flung at a team of editors

Brad Bird chats to us about Mission: Impossible, The Incredibles, Die Hard, sound, Inglourious Basterds and much, much more...

Movies 13.12.2011

Exclusive: Brad Bird teases The Iron Giant Blu-ray and potential cinema re-release

Simon Brew

There’s been talk of doing about a minute and a half, two minutes, of new animation for it, that were some sequences that we designed in the original, that I think were cool

Plans are afoot for a Blu-ray release of Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant. And it’s not going to be a bog standard release, by the sounds of it…

Movies 22.05.2011

Hollywood's most interesting blockbuster failures of the past 25 years

Simon Brew and Ryan Lambie

Not every movie can be a hit, and some blockbusters offer far more than their big budget and failure to dominate the box office might suggest. Here's our look at ten fascinating failures...

Movies 09.03.2011

10 tricks alien invaders could learn from the movies

Ryan Lambie and Simon Brew

As Battle: Los Angeles arrives in cinemas, we provide a few handy hints for aliens thinking of invading Earth...

Movies 15.02.2011

Looking back at The Iron Giant: the best family film you've never seen?

Simon Brew

Even writing it, it brings me out in goosebumps. It's exceptional cinema.

Over a decade since its release, The Iron Giant remains one of the very best animated films in a generation from Hollywood. Might it just be the best family film that you’ve never seen?

Movies 20.09.2010

Music in the movies: Michael Kamen

Glen Chapman

Prolific composer Michael Kamen has written memorable themes for action movies such as Highlander and Die Hard. He also wrote songs for Bryan Adams, but we won’t hold that against him...

Movies 28.09.2009