This Month
Why Gen Z has embraced a Kubrick classic
Stately historical epic Barry Lyndon baffled audiences in 1975. Today, young Lyndomaniacs are beguiled and showing their love for it on TikTok.
June
What Stephen King really thinks about movie adaptations of his books
The prolific writer is also a movie buff. But he has learnt to keep his mouth shut if he doesn’t like a film version of one of his books – most of the time.
January
It may feel like the end of the world, but that’s nothing new
With so much pessimism around, we can take some comfort from a new book that notes apocalyptic visions are as old as civilisation and have never come true.
October 2023
A 55cm X-Wing model from the original ‘Star Wars’ sells for $5m
The model, discovered in a cardboard box owned by a Hollywood visual effects artist, headlined at a sale of movie props that brought $21 million.
October 2022
Asahi buys StrangeLove as ‘adult’ soft drinks take off
Asahi Beverages CEO Robert Iervasi says premiumisation is accelerating in soft drinks and beer, and people keep buying in tough times.
February 2020
Kirk Douglas helped end Hollywood blacklist
Born Issur Danielovitch, the only son of seven children of illiterate Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Kirk Douglas became a film icon and maverick producer who helped end the Hollywood blacklist. He has died at 103.