Adam Smith is a UK-based journalist specialising in film and culture. He is the author of The Rough Guide To 21st Century Cinema and a former features editor of Empire Magazine, where he remains a contributing editor. In his spare time he enjoys explaining, at length and to anyone who will listen, why Once Upon A Time In America is a better film than The Godfather.
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Notorious epic Caligula given new lease of life with complete re-edit
Tinto Brass's 1979 Roman epic shocked audiences and repulsed critics. Not a single frame remains in this complete overhaul of the film, dubbed The Ultimate Cut.
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Freddie Krueger's glove gave people nightmares 40 years ago. Here's how it was made.
Special effects maestro Jim Doyle tells us how he made the most iconic prop in horror movie history for Wes Craven’s A Nightmare On Elm Street.
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Go is totally a Christmas movie, confirms screenwriter of the Nineties rave classic
Merry Gen-X-Mas! Screenwriter John August looks back at Doug Liman's unlikely festive film from 1999.
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The Day After: The nuclear war drama that traumatised a nation
Forty years ago nuclear war drama The Day After shocked America. And it’s more relevant today than ever, says director Nicholas Meyer.
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Man on wire: Yuen Woo-ping, the man who changed Hollywood fight scenes forever
As Kill Bill turns 20, we look at the life and career of its legendary fight coordinator Yuen Woo-ping.
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The crazy story of Cliff Twemlow, Manchester’s King of underground cinema
In the 1980s, bouncer turned filmmaker Cliff Twemlow carved out a career as a cult filmmaker with a handful of video nasties to his name.
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The Avengers at 25: The screenwriter explains what went wrong with the notorious flop
In an alternate universe 1998’s infamous flop The Avengers could have been an ultra-violent black-and-white revenge flick directed by David Fincher, reveals screenwriter Don Macpherson.
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Enter The Dragon writer looks back at 'capturing lightning in a bottle' with Bruce Lee
On the 50th anniversary of Enter The Dragon’s Hong Kong premiere, we talk to screenwriter Michael Allin about how he wrote a movie that changed cinema, and culture, forever.
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WarGames would be a tough sell today, says director John Badham
Forty years ago WarGames captured moviegoers attention with a heady mix of Cold War paranoia and technology innovations.