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After the Endgame: Can Marvel Studios Do It Again?

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the MCU’s success to this point, and wonders whether they can repeat the formula again… So the dust has settled. A whole slow building 11 year phase of Marvel films (it’s had splits in among those, but everything stems all the way back to Tony Stark’s first outing). Attempting to […]

Are audiences on an Avengers come down right now?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the post Avengers come down… Every year brings about the big event movies. Some years are more blessed than others of course, and it seemed for a number of years between The Lord of the Rings ending, and Marvel kicking into full go (along with the return of Star Wars) that […]

2019 in Review: Revisiting cinema’s biggest releases, news and talking points

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at 2019 in film… Whilst we all come to terms with deleting and retyping 19 as 20 on documents, letters, invoices etc, lets make time to look back at 2019 and further confuse matters. As a year of cinema, 2019 has been interesting and with a usual mix of pop culture […]

The Joys of Old School Practical Effects

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the use of old school effects and filming techniques and whether they still have a place in the CGI age… Computers are a wonderful thing. The computer generated image has take cinema up to a point where almost limitless creative possibilities are at a film-makers disposable. You can create a whole […]

A Different Landscape: The Box Office Two Years On From Avengers: Endgame

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at Avengers: Endgame, the last mega event movie. Will anything ever come close again? The simplicity of a finger snap. It was an act that brought to a close Avengers: Infinity War, where Thanos’ grand plan had come to pass. There’s no spoiler here, virtually every one with a passing interest […]

The Blockbuster Running Time Debate

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the trend of excessive running times in blockbuster movies…  You make your way to the cinema, you’re bang on time. Then the movie starts right? Nope. 20 minutes of trailers, adverts and P.S.As about turning your phone off, which half the audience misses, because they’re looking at their phone. Finally the […]

Modern Mainstream Film: Passable and Disposable?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at modern mainstream cinema. Is it being led by disposable content over long-standing legacy?  The pace at which the world evolves can be frightening sometimes. You blink, suddenly you look around and you’re 40, you’ve got a house, wife, kid and you make groaning noises when you bend down to pick something […]

The Multiverse Era: When a Cinematic Universe Isn’t Enough

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Tom Jolliffe on the current preoccupation with the multiverse… Cinema is all about cycles. Genres flit in and out of prominence. An action landscape which was once dominated by Westerns was then temporarily displaced by gangster films, then epics, then Westerns again, then a brief parley into pessimistic cinema, before Star Wars laid a significant […]

Ranking the Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies By Director Influence

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Harri Knight-Davis ranks the MCU by level of director influence… The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become a gigantic phenomenon. With its 29th film now in cinemas and seventh Disney+ show fast approaching, it can be easy to roll up to the next MCU instalment with the expectation of action-packed, comedy-filled bonanzas. However, behind every Marvel […]

LEGO unveils new Nano Gauntlet set from Marvel’s Avengers Endgame

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The LEGO Group has unveiled the latest addition to its LEGO Marvel The Infinity Saga theme, which fans the chance to recreate the Nano Gauntlet from Avengers: Endgame in brick form. The set is available to pre-order now and goes on sale on August 1st, priced at $69.99/£59.99; check out the promotional images here… Capture […]