January 27, 2009
Further Reading: Inauguration Special with The Ugly American
It's inauguration season in the United States, which always gives rise to editorial about how -- no matter who is in the White House -- the country keeps making the same foreign policy mistakes. Outside a few war films with explosions and... More...

December 25, 2008
Further Reading: Seasonal Slaying - The 12 Horrors of Christmas
Thanks to Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol, the Yuletide season has long been associated with ghost stories -- often with hard-won uplift at the end, like Scrooge being reformed by pestering spectres or Jimmy Stewart terrified into affirming... More...

December 11, 2008
Further Reading: Remember the Song, Remember Town Without Pity?
Town Without Pity, a little-remembered 1961 courtroom drama with Kirk Douglas, inspired a much more familiar song of the same name. But what of the movie asks Kim Newman. More...

November 28, 2008
Further Reading: Take an Adventure in Space with Spaceflight IC-1
Always unearthing rare gems, this week Kim Newman rediscovers a 1960s Brit sci-fi flick from Saturday morning TV. More...

October 30, 2008
Further Reading: Beat the Credit Crunch with Rollover
The credit crunch might be getting you down, but for a bargain price you can check out an eerily prophetic film about financial crisis, as Kim explores. More...

October 03, 2008
Further Reading: Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker in Abel Ferrara's Mary
As the NFT in London prepares a Juliette Binoche season, Kim looks at Abel Ferrara's Mary which also stars Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker. More...

September 19, 2008
Further Reading: Making Waves as Die Welle Arrives
Kim compares and contrasts two versions of the same story as a German version of the story prepares for UK cinemas. More...

September 07, 2008
Further Reading: Superman's Musical Moment in It's a Bird... It's a Plane...
The 1975 TV special It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Superman is so seldom-seen it tends to get written off by people who only judge from ropey clips in documentaries which bulk out DVD box sets of the Superman movies. More...

August 22, 2008
Further Reading: Hammer Horror's MySpace Revival Stumbles
Does a new collection of webisodes hosted on MySpace and featuring tabloid teen favourites Jamie Dornan and Lois Winstone constitute a revival of the Hammer Horror film? Not so, says Kim Newman... More...

August 07, 2008
Further Reading: Celebrating the Brilliance of The King of Kong
One documentary from the US last year spoke to avid videogamers more than any other, and in the process told a brilliantly human story about good, evil and Donkey Kong. In this week's Further Reading, Kim Newman celebrates The King of Kong. More...

July 24, 2008
Further Reading: Dark Knight is Unforgettable, but Who Remembers James Batman?
The Dark Knight is setting cinemas alight all over the world, but, as Kim Newman discovers, there are other Batman movies that aren't quite so well known... James Batman - which crosses the caped crusader with suave spy James Bond - probably... More...

July 10, 2008
Kim Newman on... I Shot Jesse James
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 19th column, Kim explores an earlier take on the assassination of Jesse James, as Samuel... More...

June 23, 2008
Kim Newman on... Hex
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 18th column, Kim uncovers Hex, a 1973 film in the "Weird Hippie Shit" genre starring... More...

June 05, 2008
Kim Newman on... Seven Thieves
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 17th column, Kim explored a casino-robbing heist film. More...

May 08, 2008
Kim Newman on... Hotel
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 16th column, Kim revisits Mike Figgis' star-studded film-within-a-film vampire flick Hotel. More...

April 10, 2008
Kim Newman on... The Terrornauts
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 15th column, Kim explores the colourful sci-fi The Terrornauts. More...

March 24, 2008
Kim Newman on... The Invisible Boy
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 14th column, Kim rediscovers the oft-forgotten sequel to Forbidden Planet. More...

March 06, 2008
Kim Newman on... Morituri
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 13th column, Kim uncovers a forgotten Brando/Brynner war film. More...

February 21, 2008
Kim Newman on... OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his twelfth column, Kim scoots back to 2006 and discovers that year's other spy franchise... More...

February 07, 2008
Kim Newman on... Murder!
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his eleventh column, Kim unearths a rarely seen Hitchcock movie from the early days of the... More...

January 24, 2008
Kim Newman on... Zombies of Mora Tau
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his tenth column, Kim explores the mysteries of the walking dead in Zombies of Mora Tau. More...

January 11, 2008
Kim Newman on... Mississippi Mermaid
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his ninth column, Kim unearths a forgotten Truffaut film based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich. More...

December 20, 2007
Kim Newman on... The Singing, Ringing Tree
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his eighth, and especially seasonal, column, Kim unearths The Singing, Ringing Tree a... More...

December 13, 2007
Kim Newman on... The "Human" Factor
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his seventh column, Kim rediscovers The "Human" Factor a 1975 sub-grindhouse adventure... More...

November 22, 2007
Kim Newman on... Burial of the Rats
RT Obscura, the exclusive bi-weekly column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the Rotten Tomatoes archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his sixth column, Kim explores a Roger Corman-produced Bram Stoker... More...

November 09, 2007
Kim Newman on... Mystery Street
RT Obscura, a new bi-weekly column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the Rotten Tomatoes archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his fifth column, Kim explores Mystery Street, a film combining noir... More...

October 26, 2007
Kim Newman on... Johnny Cool
RT Obscura, a new bi-weekly column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the Rotten Tomatoes archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his fourth column, Kim plumbs the seedy underbelly of cinema to kick it with... More...

October 08, 2007
Kim Newman on... Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
RT Obscura, a new bi-weekly column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the Rotten Tomatoes archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his third column, Kim looks at David Hasselhoff's crowning achievement of... More...

September 20, 2007
Kim Newman on... The Werewolf of Woodstock
Renowned critic Kim Newman continues his RT Obscura column exclusively for the site - plunging the depths of our archive to pick out some forgotten "classics." This week, Kim presents his case for a decidedly different kind of werewolf movie. More...

September 06, 2007
Kim Newman on... Frankenstein Conquers the World
The renowned critic begins a new column for RT looking at obscure cinema plucked from the depths of RT's database. This week Kim looks at Frankenstein Conquers the World, about a feral boy's predicament when the townsfolk accuse him of destroying... More...