Cinema Sleuths

Who are the greatest movie villains of all time? This week, Luke and Matt open the case file on five of their favourite cinema bad guys, from the quietly terrifying Noah Cross in Chinatown to Andy Serkis’s unforgettable Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.In Five Favourites Vol. 1: Cinema Bad Guys, we celebrate some of the most memorable, disturbing and downright entertaining villains in movie history.What makes a great movie villain? Is it pure evil, intelligence, charisma, menace — or

Party on! Cinema Sleuths investigates Wayne’s World (1992), the comedy classic that went from a Saturday Night Live sketch to one of the defining movies of the early 1990s.You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll hurl! Few comedies have had the cultural impact of Wayne’s World. More than 30 years after Wayne and Garth first hit the big screen, the film’s catchphrases, music, characters and irreverent sense of humour remain firmly embedded in popular culture.In this episode, we ask why this

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) turns 10 — but has time been kind to one of the most divisive superhero films of the modern era?A decade after its release, we reopen the case on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Was Zack Snyder’s ambitious Batman and Superman crossover always misunderstood, or was it really the stinker many people thought it was when it first hit cinemas?We investigate whether Batman v Superman has improved with age, looking back at its story, characters,

For our 100th investigation, we head deep into the jungle for John McTiernan’s Predator (1987) — the iconic genre-busting science-fiction action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers and Kevin Peter Hall.At first, Predator looks like the ultimate testosterone-fuelled 1980s action movie!In this episode, we investigate what makes Predator such an enduring classic. How did John McTiernan transform a seemingly straightforward action movie into a tense science-fiction horror

Space. The final frontier! 60 years ago, STAR TREK was released on the small screen. And nearly 50 years ago, STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE hit the BIG SCREEN! To celebrate TREK, this week, you Cinema Sleuths investigate Robert Wise’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), the ambitious science-fiction epic that brought the original Star Trek crew to cinemas for the first time.Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, and Walter