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Image: ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog © 1992 Jim Henson Productions Image Credit: Stephen F. Morley Christmas, that yuletide day of excessive eating approaches. With that in mind, I feel it’s essential to look back at some impressive Christmas dinner moments in cinema. Whether decadent or modest, the following examples are […]
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For as long as I can remember, I have loved superhero movies. It is a love that has exhausted me and my wallet over recent years, and left me jaded despite films like Black Panther attempting to take the genre in new directions. Just a few days ago I would have been hesitant to say […]
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Image Credit: Pixabay After watching Damien Chazelle’s First Man recently, I felt it was important to revisit the film that introduced me to the glory of the genre at seven years old, and which remains one of my favourite science fiction films of all time. It’s clear that Silent Running was one of Chazelle’s primary […]
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Image Credit: Warner Bros. To begin this review, I should firstly admit to being a big fan of the Harry Potter Universe, or as it is now more commercially known, the Wizarding World. This is why I am saddened to admit that unlike many fans that have raged against this movie’s low critical reception, I […]
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Credit: Film4. Description: the poster for ‘Widows’. “Four armed robbers are killed in a failed heist attempt, only to have their widows step up to finish the job.” Initially, this Wikipedia summary of Widows says little to imply that it could be ground-breaking. Heist films have already reinvented themselves many times over (see: Ocean’s Eleven, […]
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Image Credit: Universal Pictures. Description: Mike Myers’ mask in Halloween. The recently released Halloween is the eleventh film in the much-maligned franchise and the second reboot, so when production was first announced back in 2017, it is safe to say that I kept my expectations in check. For once though, such cynicism proved unnecessary. General […]
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Image Credit: Universal Pictures Before we begin this review, a major pinch of salt. As someone who once read every Apollo mission’s Wikipedia entry, I may be a little bit obsessed with the Space Race. Anyway, First Man is the latest from Ryan Gosling and Damien Chazelle, on the back of their success with La […]
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The release of the new Captain Marvel trailer fills me with hope for the future of Marvel’s cinematic universe. For all its epic scope and breath-taking action scenes, Avengers: Infinity War still revolved almost entirely around male characters, their actions, their plains, and their desires. There were maybe two or three moments in the film […]
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It feels inappropriate to refer to Winnie-the-Pooh as a franchise, as though it would sully the precious world found in A A Milne’s classic childhood novels. Nevertheless, as this summer saw the release of yet another film returning to the Hundred Acre Wood, Disney’s Christopher Robin proves that the well of Pooh-related stories has not […]
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As we prepare to watch Tom Hardy graduate from Bane’s venom-inhaling mask in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) to a full-scale parasite in Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming Venom (2018), let’s consider the importance of the mask outside the horror and conventional superhero genre. Despite these stereotypes, this favourite form of disguise has made significant appearances in […]
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Netflix brought us The Kissing Booth this past May, which quickly rose to popularity with young audiences. But in the battle of 2018 YA film adaptations, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a sure winner. Based on Jenny Han’s best-selling novel of the same name, this story follows Lara Jean Covey, a die-hard […]
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Completing all the quests feels like a momentous achievement. Getting that golden 100% on your save file isn’t bad either. In gaming, completion is often everything; inflated egos and bragging rights last for weeks. Yet for all the strain and countless hours you’ve burned, something’s missing. Ultimately, you know you’ve taken the boring path, you’ve […]
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Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Among the biggest news to come out of the entertainment industry recently is that the latest reboot heading to our screens will be of the much-loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. The news was broken by a report from The Hollywood Reporter and, as one might expect, it has since […]
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Image Credit: Epic Games via Polygon Duncan Jones, the director behind Warcraft and Moon, will be bringing Rogue Trooper, one of the 2000 AD properties of Oxford-based comics publishers Rebellion, to the big screen. The director sparked intense fan speculation last week by teasing that his next film would be based on a mystery comic book […]
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For those unfamiliar with the concept, concert films are film screenings with live orchestral accompaniment. Though the popularity of concert film has rocketed in recent years, they are by no means a recent development. The earliest known concert film was Concert Magic which premiered at the Charlie Chaplin Studios in 1947. Featuring the renowned violinist […]
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A few days ago, I watched the last episode ever of Once Upon a Time – again. You may think that, having done exactly the same thing almost exactly a year ago, with what was then supposed to be the concluding episode of the entire series, the emotional impact of the experience could not be […]
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The humble music video is an integral part of the entertainment industry today. Whether it’s watching ‘OK Go’ dancing on treadmills, or a-ha performing in a comic-book world, it’s fair to say that they’ll be around for a while yet. But given the amount of people involved in the production, from directors to makeup and […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a man’s world, and in comedy that holds true. Whether it’s Hollywood or stand-up, the funny side of the entertainment business is a largely male-dominated arena. When asked, ‘Who is your favourite comedian or actor?’, answers like Seth Rogen and Aziz Ansari often come before anyone mentions Betty White or Tina Fey. When an […]
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Anyone turning to Fleabag for the first time cannot but help bring with them a whole parade of preconceptions about modern comedy as it tells the tale of the socially awkward singleton, the overly-open protagonist, the emotionally damaged and manipulative, dishonest and perverted owner of a guinea-pig themed café in London. The creator and main […]
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