Tony Black counts down to Game of Thrones’ season 7 premiere… The King in the North! What a journey a man who knows so little has undertaken over the last six seasons of Game of Thrones. The bastard son (or so we thought) of Ned Stark, warden of the North and all round good egg, […]
Critical Thinking: Iron Fist and the broad strokes of whitewashing
Anghus Houvouras on Marvel’s Iron Fist and the broad strokes of whitewashing… Diversity is one of those troubling topics of conversation that always places you on the precipice of wedging your creps firmly in your soft palate. Especially when you’re white, since conventional logic tells me that the only opinion I should have on any […]
Interview – Beauty and the Beast composer Alan Menken
Amon Warmann chats with Beauty and the Beast composer Alan Menken… There are few people more key to Disney’s animated success in the late 80’s and early 90’s than Alan Menken. The legendary composer – who has won a record 8 Oscars for his scores – returned for Beauty and the Beast’s live action adaptation […]
Exclusive Interview: Matty Cardarople talks A Series of Unfortunate Events
Tai Freligh chats with A Series of Unfortunate Events star Matty Cardarople… A laid-back, quirky comedic actor, East Coast-born Matty Cardarople grew up entertaining friends and family in Exeter, New Hampshire. After settling in Los Angeles, he studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse and has been studying with Lesly Kahn & Co. for several years. Discovered […]
Why The Oscars Are The Most Important Event Of The Year
Neil Calloway claims that the Academy Awards are more important than you might think… Tonight is the 89th Academy Awards, the industry prize giving ceremony that everyone knows as the Oscars (for obscure reasons – nobody is quite sure why they’re called that, with competing origin stories for the nickname). I would argue it’s the […]
Critical Thinking: Do Critics Matter? (Part Deux)
Anghus Houvouras on critics and whether they matter… Last year I attempted to answer a question that feels asked as often as opinions about film are stated online: Do critics matter? It’s a difficult question because of how radically the film criticism has changed. I won’t bore you with a detailed historical breakdown of the […]
Interview: How Gore Verbinski and Dane DeHaan turned their nightmares into A Cure For Wellness
Dan Jolin chats with Gore Verbinski and Dane DeHaan about A Cure for Wellness… During the summer of 2015, while shooting A Cure for Wellness in Germany, Dane DeHaan went through what he describes as “my month of torture”. In the space of a few weeks, the then-29-year-old star of Chronicle and The Amazing Spider-Man […]
Hacksaw Ridge and our attitude towards violence
Henry Bevan on Hacksaw Ridge and our attitude towards violence… A ultra-violent pacifist movie. That’s the oxymoron greeting you when you watch Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson’s film about Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a conscientious objector involved in the Battle of Okinawa. The film is open to multiple readings. Some are obvious, with Doss’s comparison with […]
How to fix the X-Men Cinematic Universe
Anghus Houvouras on how Fox can fix the X-Men: Cinematic Universe… Fox has been cultivating the X-Men cinematic universe for nearly two decades. It’s been that long since fans were first treated to Marvel’s most magnanimous mutants on the big screen. The first X-Men movie wasn’t perfect, but it was a solid first entry into […]
Mel Gibson Directing Suicide Squad 2? So Crazy It Might Just Work
Anghus Houvouras on the possibility of Mel Gibson directing Suicide Squad 2… Recently I wrote a column about the inherent struggles that come with separating the art from the artist. Most of the time this isn’t a problem as even the most educated film fans probably don’t know the intimate personal details of the writers, […]
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