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2025 in Film: What Did We Learn?

December 28, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to take a look back at 2025 in film and ponder what we’ve learned… 2025 is drawing to a close, and we can get a sense of how things have gone and what we’ve learned from cinema this year. It’s fair to say there have been surprises and some trends continuing, with others […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: bring her back, DC, DC Universe, Death Among the Pines, F1, Josh Oconnor, lilo and stitch, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Minecraft, No Other Choice, One Battle After Another, Oppenheimer, Sentimental Value, sinners, Super Happy Forever, Superman, The Baby in the Basket, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts, Train Dreams, wake up dead man: a knives out mystery, Weapons, zootopia 2

Studios defiantly stick to reboots and sequels but are we bored yet?

March 28, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It seems every day a new reboot or sequel is given the green light or drops on the big screen and the streamers. How badly do audiences really want them? In the space of a few weeks, we’ve had Dune 2, a new Ghostbusters film, a Road House reboot, a Beetlejuice sequel teaser, a Happy […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barbie, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Civil War, Dune: Part Two, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Happy Gilmore 2, Oppenheimer, Road House, Skinamarink, TERRIFIER, Terrifier 3, The Crow, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Is Cinema On Its Last Legs?

June 2, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

After some notable big-budget bombs, is the big screen experience on its last legs? Remember Barbenheimer? It felt like a shot of adrenaline that could reinvigorate a struggling big screen industry with audiences preferring to catch films on streaming. Had you been asked about your expectations for the success of a three-hour biopic of Oppenheimer […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aftersun, Avatar: The Way of Water, Barbie, Civil War, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Godzilla Minus One, Mandy, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Oppenheimer, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, saltburn, The Fall Guy, Top Gun: Maverick

Blu-ray Review – Oppenheimer (2023)

November 25, 2023 by Brad Cook

Oppenheimer, 2023. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh. SYNOPSIS: Christopher Nolan’s epic bio pic Oppenheimer arrives on disc with an excellent batch of bonus features. It’s a great movie, and fans will want to grab this […]

Filed Under: Brad Cook, Movies, News, Physical Media, Reviews Tagged With: Casey Affleck, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh, Matt Damon, Oppenheimer, Rami Malek, Robert Downey Jr.

Ranking the Major Best Picture Contenders for the 2024 Oscars

January 6, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at films heading for the 2024 Oscars… As we enter the New Year and the 2024 award season begins, the contenders for Best Picture are starting to take shape.  While anything can happen from now to the Oscars in March, we have over ten films that most likely play a part in […]

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Christopher Nolan saw a massive payday for Oppenheimer

March 15, 2024 by EJ Moreno

Christoper Nolan walked away from Oppenheimer with a handful of Oscars and had a massive payday. The producer and director took home Best Director and Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards for his massive blockbuster Oppenheimer. A recent piece from Variety post-Oscars revealed that the filmmaker walked away making “just south of $100 million.” […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Christoper Nolan, Oppenheimer

Robert Downey Jr. confirms he auditioned for Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins

February 5, 2024 by EJ Moreno

There’s always been rumblings about alternative castings from the Christopher Nolan-era Batman films. Josh Hartnett was up for the Bruce Wayne/Batman role, while various alternate names have been floated for other takes on some villains. But did you know Robert Downey Jr. was in the running for the Scarecrow? Decades before he took on the […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Batman, batman begins, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, DC, Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr.

The Cult Film of 2023: Saltburn

January 14, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to look back at the dazzling, stylish and shocking cult film Saltburn (spoilers follow)… 2023 was a pretty interesting year in cinema. It may just be that we saw a turning point in audience tastes, with comic book films and franchise sequels mostly underperforming, whilst the grand success of Barbenheimer showed two things. […]

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Universal working to restock Oppenheimer on 4K after selling out at major retailers

November 29, 2023 by Ricky Church

As if it was not enough for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer to be one of the summer’s big blockbusters, earning over $900 billion at the box office and even re-released to IMAX screens a few weeks ago, the film has pretty much sold out of its 4K physical discs at major retailers such as Amazon and Best […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Physical Media, Ricky Church, Top Stories Tagged With: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, universal

Mockbuster Barbenheimer is currently in production at Full Moon Features

November 5, 2023 by EJ Moreno

You can only imagine the Barbenheimer madness that dominated the cinema landscape this year and inspired many people. From studio execs to filmmakers, everyone is trying to cash in on their version of this madness, and one studio has found its perfect route. Legendary low-budget filmmaker Charles Band’s Full Moon Features is developing Barbenheimer, a […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Barbenheimer, Barbie, Full Moon Features, Oppenheimer

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