Imagine the scene. A Warner Bros. executive enters the room to talk to the producer. “Hey, I just finished the script for this Wonder Woman flick. Bit similar to the Marvel Thor films, isn’t it?” The producer looks up. “Well, ...
Read More »Kong: Skull Island – Where creativity goes to die…
Cinema should be something incredible to behold. An astounding and revelatory experience that expands what you thought was possible. I can safely say that Kong: Skull Island is just that. I still struggle to conceive how a film so garbled, ...
Read More »The X-Men Franchise: The Industry Explosion
Part 2 of our 4 part series on the X-Men franchise and its impact on comics and the film industry. X-Men came out in 2000. The following years saw an industry explosion of Marvel films produced by a variety of ...
Read More »New Dungeons & Dragons film announced
We’re already getting a World of Warcraft film directed by Duncan Jones and now we’re getting a new Dungeons and Dragons film… life is good. Let’s just hope Warner Bros get an awesome team together for this one. And all ...
Read More »Does Constantine deserve to be saved?
Not to be left behind on the superhero front, NBC green-lit DC’s Hellbazer comics to be adapted into a series for 2014. It was not smooth sailing for the series, with major cast changes and script rewrites early on. But ...
Read More »Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter
Whether you are a big kid or a legitimate littl’un, if you are a Harry Potter fan the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter is worth a visit. The tour first opened in March 2012, ...
Read More »Veronica Mars: The movie – Our story is epic. Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined and blood shed.
Fear not lovely marshmallows, this review comes to you completely spoiler free. The Veronica Mars movie came out on March 14th, released worldwide (practically) in selected theatres and in almost every possible digital download format. After a record-breaking Kickstarter to ...
Read More »The Going Gets Weird, Part 2: The Latter Career of Al Jourgensen
Alain Jourgensen was just another fresh-faced, Cuban-American frontman of a synth band until Ministry struck their true character with third album The Land Of Rape And Honey. On Land, and its more guitar-heavy sister The Mind is a Terrible Thing ...
Read More »The original isn’t always better: TV and film
The American Film Institute voted An Affair to Remember the most romantic film of all time. It is a seminal classic. But how many people know that it was a remake of a film made 18 years earlier – with ...
Read More »Nostalgic impulse: 10 Cartoons from my childhood
I loved being a kid and I often wish I could go back to that simpler time. No more worrying about the damp problem in the upstairs bathroom or whether I can afford to get the electrician in. When I’m ...
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