Ryan Lambie

2 weeks ago | filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie

The documentary Heart Of Neon tells the story of pioneering videogame designer Jeff Minter. A new Kickstarter campaign has launched to fund its Blu-ray release. Directed by Paul Docherty, the feature-length documentary Heart Of Neon tells the story of a key figure in the British games industry. Jeff Minter began making games in the early 1980s; but where once mighty software houses have fallen and game designers have moved to other industries, Minter has kept going.

2 weeks ago | filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie

Whiplash director Damien Chazelle is said to be working on a prison film, with Cillian Murphy as well as Daniel Craig in talks to star. For a while, it sounded as though Damien Chazelle had two major projects close to going into production: a prison movie and a film about the legendarily accident prone stunt rider, Evel Knievel. The idea being, presumably, that Chazelle could embark on one project if the other happened to fall through.

2 weeks ago | filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie

Michael Bay is going from Optimus Prime to Armitage Shanks as Skibidi Toilet goes into production. It’s a film based on a series of viral YouTube videos. In a move that would make a superb episode of Hollywood satire The Studio, director Michael Bay has officially gone into production on Skibidi Toilet. This is the planned adaptation of a series of viral YouTube videos which first began to emerge in 2023.

2 weeks ago | filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie

Jason Statham faces his most daunting opponent yet in his new action thriller, A Working Man: the wardrobe department. NB: The following contains spoilers for A Working Man. The things we see in movies are seldom placed there by accident. From the specific positioning of a light to the books on a protagonist’s shelf, even the smallest details are generally by design rather than happenstance.

2 weeks ago | filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie

A decade on, Borderlands director Eli Roth plans to return to his thriller Knock Knock – this time with a German remake. For a relatively obscure, low-budget thriller, 1977’s Death Game has had a remarkably long afterlife. It was remade in 1980 under the title Vicious And Nude, and then again by director and co-writer Eli Roth, this time as Knock Knock, in 2015.