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Headstuff writers revisit memorable horror movies in the run-up to Halloween. Just 17 years passed between John Carpenter’s original masterpiece and Michael Myers completing the Pink Panther Prophecy of Sequel Titling (Return…

My relationship with GoldenEye for Nintendo 64 has always been complicated - as a game in and of itself, it is unrivalled as one of (maybe THE) most important first person shooters available on a home console, it premiered some of the key…

In a year that has consistently seemed like the death knell for Agent 007, the news that a new AAA James Bond videogame was on the way from a big name developer was like a torrent of sunshine cast down from the heavens, or a laser beaming…

Acclaimed screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz once recalled the time he contacted Sir Sean Connery to reprise his role as James Bond Agent 007 in Live and Let Die, the eighth Bond picture in just over a decade. An embittered Connery responded…

As an enduring icon of pop culture, it should come as no surprise that James Bond 007's onscreen antics have inspired a slew of virtual efforts to recreate the vodka guzzling adventures of the British super spy. But conversations around the…

On Her Majesty's Secret Service celebrates its 50th anniversary and it continues to stand proud as the best James Bond film of all time. Director Peter Hunt bravely chose to treat Bond as a human, with a beating heart rather than a mere…

Each August, I’m reminded of Elvis Presley’s sudden expiration and I find myself poring through his enormous catalogue of material and diving into the details of his Earthly existence with great fascination. No idea where this obsession…

When the first promotional images for Batman: Arkham Asylum arrived in Summer 2008, it felt very much like business as usual. Throughout the 00s, licensed superhero games were common enough, many of them looked like they'd be winners early…

I’ve seen the future and it will be. Batman 1989 turns thirty this week, and three decades in it remains as odd as it was when it was released - it’s been criticised as having been the ultimate studio product, pumped out with the…

While buses everywhere are now emblazoned with the three heads of King Ghidorah squaring off against the King of the Monsters, in the world of 1998, Godzilla and his monstrous friends were not particularly known quantities in the west.…