Hasitha Fernando revisits Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker twenty years after its release… Throughout the 1990’s DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment found great success with their ever-expanding slate of animated TV series. Kicking-off with the critically acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series in the Fall of 1992, this fledgling animated universe further grew with […]
Misery at 30: Why the story of an obsessive superfan is even more potent three decades on
With Rob Reiner’s thriller celebrating its 30th anniversary, George Nash looks at the alarming relevance of Misery in the modern era… Movies, and perhaps most patently horror movies, are like mirrors. For well over a century, in the familiar setting of the living room or dark sanctuary of the multiplex, in the perceived safety of […]
Extreme Cinema – David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996)
Crash, 1996. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette and Elias Koteas. Whilst the depiction of sex and violence in films has often been the main focal point for the British Board of Film Classification’s decision making, never have the two been combined more provocatively in mainstream cinema […]
What Are the Most Jaw-Dropping Moments in Gaming?
Red Stewart presents the most jaw-dropping moments in video games… Video games are such massive endeavours, these days, that they might as well be called cinematic adventures. They take players on a fantastic ride from beginning to end, dropping eye-popping visuals and invigorating stories to keep us vested. One of those attractive tactics involves incorporating […]
Great 90s Kids Movies That Even Adults Enjoy
Marvelous Videos presents a selection of great 90s kids movies that adults can enjoy… C.S. Lewis once famously said: “Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.” He was reacting to a criticism he was seeing in the literary world wherein children’s books were […]
The Best Disaster Movie Blockbusters of All Time
Marvelous Videos presents the best disaster blockbusters of all time… Destruction porn was once a pejorative thrown at films that centered their visuals around urbicide and architectural destruction, but it has since come to be embraced as an appealing factor of blockbusters that feature extensive action sequences in a metropolitan area. After all, you can’t […]
Film Twitter is Sometimes a Betrayal of Cinema
Robert Kojder on Film Twitter and the betrayal of cinema… There are two things spawning this messy article that’s most likely going to come across as a rant against Film Twitter. The first of which didn’t compel me enough to start writing because it’s actually something that happens all the time but we will start […]
Phenomenal Scenes in the DC Extended Universe
Red Stewart presents five phenomenal scenes from the DC Extended Universe… The DCEU seems to have a lot going for it at the moment – we have Zack Snyder’s Justice League set to come out on HBO Max, there’s Wonder Woman 1984 that will (hopefully!) be released by Christmas, and of course you have many other sequels […]
The Most Evil Classic Cartoon Villains Of All Time!
Marvelous Videos on the most dastardly classic cartoon villains… Protagonists live and breathe by the obstacles they face – if you don’t have a tough antagonist, your hero’s adventure is boring, plain and simple. And considering how expensive animation can get, you can bet a lot of storytellers have worked to ensure their villains were […]
From Hard Boiled to Soft Boiled: Why John Woo’s masterpiece will never be matched again
Tom Jolliffe revisits John Woo’s action masterpiece Hard Boiled… John Woo had already made quite a name for himself in China, thanks to hit action classics such as A Better Tomorrow and The Killer. In 1992 he released the film which would see him transition from Hong Kong director, to Hollywood. The film was Hard […]
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