Joseph Jenkinson with five suggestions for Marvel Studios should they decide to recast Blade… Marvel Studios’ long-troubled Blade reboot has finally reached an unfortunate conclusion. After seven years of rewrites, director departures and production delays, lead actor Mahershala Ali has stepped away from the project altogether, bringing one of the MCU’s most turbulent developments to […]
The Superhero Genre is Changing, Not Disappearing
In 2019, superhero movies reached a height that once seemed impossible. Avengers: Endgame was not simply another blockbuster release; it was a genuine cultural event. Earning nearly $3 billion worldwide, it represented the peak of a decade-long experiment that transformed superhero films from occasional crowd-pleasers into the centre of Hollywood’s blockbuster strategy. For years, superhero […]
5 Pixar Movies That Deserve a Sequel (And 5 That Should Be Left Alone)
Joseph Jenkinson with five Pixar movies that deserve a sequel, and five that need left well alone…. There was a time when Toy Story stood alone as Pixar’s only sequel. For years, the studio built its reputation on creating imaginative, self-contained stories that rarely needed revisiting once the credits rolled. Since the 2010s, however, characters […]
Pixar Doesn’t Have an Originality Problem, It Has a Universality Problem
Joseph Jenkinson on Pixar’s “originality problem” and its shifting storytelling priorities… Pixar earned its reputation through a seemingly endless run of original stories. Aside from the occasional revisit to the Toy Story world, the period between 1995 and 2010 (often regarded as the studio’s golden age) was defined by a string of beloved films that […]
