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Has the Mainstream Audience Outgrown Comic Book Movies?

March 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Has the mainstream audience outgrown comic book movies? We ponder whether comic book movies have enough audience to warrant such big budgets now… Remember a time when short of being one of the big two of Batman or Superman, comic book adaptations were seen as a sure-fire money pit? We saw failed Punisher, Phantom, Shadow […]

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Willem Dafoe: An Underrated Great of his Generation

April 3, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of Willem Dafoe, and why he should be held in even higher regard… There are some actors who magnetise the limelight. Historically we’ve had the movie stars, those great headliners who would surf acclaim and awards as long as they were in good standing in a big studio. Further […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: American Psycho, Antichrist, Aquaman, At Eternity's Gate, Nymphomaniac, Platoon, Shadow of The Vampire, Spiderman, The Boondock Saints, The Florida Project, the french dispatch, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Lighthouse, The Loveless, The Northman, To Live and Die in L.A., Willem Dafoe

Reboot, Reset, Mulligan, Ad Nauseam: The Ever-Increasing Frequency of Reboots

February 6, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the ever-increasing frequency of reboots… This won’t come as any surprise but the notion of the reboot, remake, or whatever you call it is nothing new. We’ve all seen three live action Spider-Man incarnations in just 10 years from Tobey Maguire’s final fling, through Andrew Garfield, to Tom Holland who is […]

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