Neil Calloway isn’t convinced by plans for a new film about High School football… The news that there is going to be a new Friday Night Lights film should be greeted with trepidation. It’s not the big screen spin-off of the TV series that many hoped for (more on this later, but they’re wrong to […]
The Self Sustaining Hype of a Blockbuster
Neil Calloway looks at how movies become monsters… We’ve all seen it, and, perhaps unknowingly, we’ve all played a part in it. It’s the self-sustaining hype of a blockbuster. It starts months, even years before the film comes out; if a movie is a sequel it starts the moment you leave the cinema of the […]
In A Battle Of Kevin Smith vs James Cameron, Let’s Sit On The Sidelines
Neil Calloway looks at the seemingly endless debate over comic book movies… You’ll often here talk of a culture war; countries that are divided into red states and blue states, leave or remain. It’s good journalistic shorthand, but in reality people are complex, with a range of tastes and opinions moulded by their unique experiences. […]
How To Ruin A Film By Talking Down To The Audience
Neil Calloway is fed up with being told exactly where the action is taking place… There is one thing that can guarantee me to let out a disappointed sigh in the cinema before a word has been spoken on screen. It’s the appearance of a caption telling us where the action is taking place. After […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Isn’t As Good Or Bad As You Think It Is
Neil Calloway tries to find middle ground with the latest Star Wars film… Warning: contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It’s been over a week, you’ve had time to go through the stages of grief and finally come to acceptance that The Last Jedi is a fairly decent film, or if you won’t […]
Why It’s Time To Give The Franchise Movie A Break
Neil Calloway argues that sometimes a rest is a good as a change when it comes to franchises… I don’t care. I hope I’m not alone, but I do not care in the slightest whether Ben Affleck continues to be Batman or when the next Terminator movie is out. I’d rather they didn’t happen at […]
Why David Fincher Is Right And Wrong About Marvel
Neil Calloway asks whether making movies for Marvel is what directors want… David Fincher has become the latest director to stick his oar in and have a slight pop at Marvel studios. Nothing surprising there, it’s sort of his job to fly the flag for grown up drama and it’s certainly his job to get […]
Why Do So Many Sequels Disappoint?
Neil Calloway looks at why so few sequels are better than the films that precede them… With the advance word on Blade Runner 2049 good, with some saying it’s at least the equal of the original (read our review here), it’s got me thinking why so few sequels surpass the first film. In theory, it […]
The Surprising Stats of British Cinema
Neil Calloway looks at a new tool that explores the facts and figures of UK film… This week the British Film Institute released a rather nice online tool that will surely keep you entertained for hours now the nights are drawing in. Or you could use it like I do to confirm all your prejudices […]
The First L.A. Confidential TV Show
Neil Calloway looks at a previous attempt to bring the acclaimed film to the small screen… The news that CBS are developing a TV adaptation of L.A. Confidential is great idea – James Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet is a series of novels that covers over a thousand pages, with characters also appearing in Ellroy’s other books. […]
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