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Franchise Fresheners: The Hunger Games

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Anghus Houvouras on The Hunger Games franchise… Franchises. They’re everywhere. I’ve written a lot about them over the years and subsequently have gotten a lot of flack from people from swinging my razor wire covered baseball bat into the shins of the blockbuster cinema complex that Hollywood has become. It’s painfully obvious that franchises aren’t […]

Why Only James Cameron Can Save The Terminator Movies

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Neil Calloway argues that only the series creator can breathe life back into the franchise… This week we got the inevitable news that The Terminator franchise is being lowered into the molten steel one final time, and all but the most ardent member of the resistance against the machines breathed a sigh of relief at […]

Can we all just admit Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom looks awful?

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Anghus Houvouras on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom… I watched the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer, laughing like a loon at how completely bereft of ideas this terrible looking sequel has. The terrible trailer was launched this past week and was the most troubling two minutes of 2017 that didn’t involve the words ‘Donald’, ‘Trump, and […]

Why Cannes Giving Netflix The Seal Of Approval Matters

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Neil Calloway argues that the films being shown at Cannes mark a turning point in cinema… Ten years ago Netflix were a cool little company that would mail you DVDs every month, even providing a little envelope so you could return Casino Royale before they sent you Pan’s Labyrinth. If someone had told you that […]

Let’s Kill The 90s Revival Before It Begins

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Neil Calloway isn’t happy about the spate of upcoming 90s remakes… It’s a cliché to say Hollywood has run out of ideas, but clichés only become clichés because they contain an element of truth, and with the possibility of remakes of some films from the 1990s nobody really wants to see, it looks like Hollywood […]

Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has A Lot To Live Up To

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Neil Calloway on why the second films in Star Wars trilogies are the best… Unless you’ve been hiding out on Dagobah or in the Outer Rim Territories, you’ll be aware that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is released this week. It’s a Star Wars movie, so has a lot to live up to, but it’s […]

Why The VHS Tape Changed Films

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This week, Neil Calloway remembers the humble VHS tape with fondness… With VCRs no longer being produced, the death knell of videotapes has finally come. In reality, its heyday only lasted at most twenty years – from the 1980s to the year 2000, overtaken by DVDs, hard disc recorders, Blu-rays and now streaming services. VHS […]

Sherlock Series 4: Moriarty’s Return Theory

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Liam Hoofe with a theory on the Moriarty mystery in Sherlock… The Russian playwright Anton Chekhov once gave some simple advice about the construction of a narrative: if it is not essential, then do not put it there in the first place. This idea has become known as Chekhov’s Gun – simply put, if you […]

Martin Scorsese’s Lost Masterpiece: Remembering The King of Comedy

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With Silence getting the critics salivating, Sean Wilson examines what is possibly Martin Scorsese’s greatest – and almost certainly most underrated – film, The King of Comedy… Do portrayals of celebrity culture and fan worship get more lacerating and acute than 1983’s masterpiece The King of Comedy? Martin Scorsese’s follow-up to Raging Bull is quite […]