Sam Raimi
Adam Driver’s new film 65 blasts dinosaurs into extinction. What’s not to love?
This time-travelling sci-fi thriller has massive flop written all over it. Or it could be the greatest piece of cinema ever created
Stuart Heritage
15, Dec, 2022 @4:07 PM
When will Marvel bring X-Men and Fantastic Four into the MCU?
Three years after Disney’s buy-out, major characters remain nowhere to be seen. Does Multiverse of Madness hold the clue?
Ben Child
03, Jun, 2022 @12:02 PM
Sharon Stone! Leonardo DiCaprio! Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead deserves your time
This 1995 western has been widely overlooked but it is good camp fun, starring Stone as a mysterious woman who enters a gunslinger contest in an outlaw town
Elizabeth Flux
24, May, 2022 @5:30 PM
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review – one for diehard Marvel fans
Self-referential in the extreme, this latest outing for dimension-hopping Benedict Cumberbatch is a largely joyless affair
Wendy Ide
07, May, 2022 @2:00 PM
Spider-Man at 20: the superhero film that changed blockbuster cinema
Sam Raimi’s charming, if patchy, 2002 adventure showed that mass audiences were eager for a new kind of superhero and the industry never looked back
Guy Lodge
03, May, 2022 @1:43 PM
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review – cheerful alt-reality sequel
Benedict Cumberbatch returns as surgeon-superhero Stephen Strange, now on a mission to protect a teen who can visit parallel universes
Peter Bradshaw
03, May, 2022 @1:00 PM
Don’t Breathe 2 review – dull and dingy home invasion horror sequel
A follow-up to 2016’s sleeper smash reunites us with the murderous blind antihero yet fails to recapture even the slightest bit of tension
Benjamin Lee
12, Aug, 2021 @4:00 PM
Could 'Spider-Man 3' see our hero battle the Sinister Six?
With Jamie Foxx as Electro and Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus reportedly on board, this long-talked about movie might soon become an (alternate) reality
Ben Child
10, Dec, 2020 @5:17 PM
Elvis meets the Evil Dead as comedy rewinds to the VHS era
The cult show that splices Evil Dead II with Elvis Presley hits is now on video cassette as standups hark back to retro formats
Brian Logan
08, Dec, 2020 @7:35 AM
Can Marvel help Spider-Man's Sam Raimi escape from Hollywood purgatory?
He’s directing the Doctor Strange sequel – but will the Raimi we get be the indie-horror enfant terrible we want or the Spider-Man 3 dud we don’t?
Ben Child
16, Apr, 2020 @12:54 PM
Fists of fear: severed hands in films – ranked!
With the imminent release of the French animation J’ai Perdu Mon Corps – in which a hand tries to reconnect (literally) with its body – we hail some of the great severed appendages of cinema
Anne Billson
14, Nov, 2019 @1:04 PM
The Evil Dead review – Sam Raimi's classic is gutsy, gory … and misogynist
The horror virtuoso’s trailblazing no-budget debut still makes for uneasy viewing – just not always in the way he intended
Steve Rose
26, Oct, 2018 @5:00 AM
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