The release of the next James Bond adventure, Spectre, is fast approaching and fans are eagerly anticipating the 24th movie in the series. The previous entry in the series Skyfall was the biggest Bond film to date, earning over a billion dollars at the box-office and a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Daniel Craig’s tenure […]
William Shakespeare, one of the most famous writers ever to have lived and the bane to school children the world over. Born in 1564 and dying in 1616, Shakespeare produced 38 plays and 154 sonnets. From comedies, to tragedies, to histories, many of his plays are known the world over and with a new adaptation […]
Every September, the Star-Spangled Banner flies over a small town in the French region of Normandy. Only a few miles from the beaches where the Allied troops landed on June 6th 1944, it is the time of the annual Deauville American Film Festival. Since 1975, the festival has been committed to celebrate US cinema of all shapes and sizes. […]
Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War is in the works and it sounds like it’s a glorified Avengers 3. Seriously. Everyone‘s in this thing. Which, to be fair, is appropriate for the subject matter. It’s a big turning point for the whole universe. It needs to be a big, sweeping movie. It’s important. That’s why I […]
Given how much fun I had writing my last feature, I decided to give it another try with defending another comic book film that so many cast aside without stopping to really see if there’s anything to appreciate about it. The one we will be talking about is especially baffling, given the current “character focused” […]
One genre that British cinema is often associated with is the gangster genre, having produced many classics over the years. They can offer guns, glamour and geezers or have a more realistic and grounded take and be a much more hard-hitting affair because of it. In recent years, British gangster movies have become numerous, filling […]
If you frequent comic books sites and fan boards (which if you’re reading this article, I assume you do at least a little), you’ll see frequent versions of a similar idea – that Marvel Comics is being adapted slowly to look more like the movies from Marvel Studios. There are some valid reasons to believe […]
2015 has seen a number of post-apocalyptic movies being released. Mad Max: Fury Road was a box-office hit while the future of the Terminator series hangs in the balance after Terminator Genisys disappointed fans, critics and general audiences. The adaptation of Robert C. O’Brien’s novel Z for Zachariah is being released in theaters this weekend, a […]
There are maybe a handful of comic book movies that really gain a noticeable amount of ire from fans and audiences. Sure, there are many that are hated and cast aside, but mainly those are forgotten and, eventually, recategorized as simply “not worth the time”. Honest and sustainable ire only comes into contact with a […]
D23 is going on right now. Or it’s over? I guess it depends on when you read this. Anyway, since Disney owns half the world, it means their expo is filled with all sorts of updates on Star Wars, the yes-it-still-exists Pirates franchise, and of course the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The expected loot arrived: footage […]
