Long before James Cameron’s Titanic in 1997, and even before 1958’s A Night to Remember, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels looked to score a cinematic triumph with a feature / propaganda film based on the 1912 maritime disaster. The resulting film, Titanic, is now set to become the subject of its […]
What Will Constitute Success and Failure for Avengers: Infinity War?
Samuel Brace on Avengers: Infinity War… Avengers: Infinity War has an unenviable task ahead of it. On one hand it has a decade of marketing behind it and will undoubtedly reap a huge sum once it makes its long awaited bow at the box office; on the other, the metric for success regarding this Marvel […]
James Cameron’s Titanic returns to the big screen for 20th anniversary
Paramount Pictures and AMC Theatres have announced that they are celebrating the 20th anniversary of James Cameron’s Titanic with an exclusive one-week engagement in Dolby Cinema at AMC, including 20 locations supporting 3D. “We mastered a few minutes of Titanic in Dolby Vision and I was stunned. It was like seeing it for the first time. Now […]
Review: James Horner A Life In Music at the Royal Albert Hall
Sean Wilson reviews the tribute concert in memory of the late Titanic composer… It takes a special composer to stamp a singular and enduring personality over the films they score, but James Horner was that person. Tragically killed in a plane crash in 2015 Horner’s death was massive blow for the soundtrack industry, the loss […]
20 Years Back: Celebrating the Cinematic Delights of 1997
Tom Jolliffe celebrates the cinematic delights of 1997… 1997. It doesn’t feel that distant but we’re now talking 20 years. This was the year I left school. That officially makes me old as fuck I believe. Lady Di passed, Tony Blair became PM, Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, Mike Tyson had a Holyfield Ear […]
Film Anniversaries To Look Forward To In 2017
This week, Neil Calloway looks at what films are celebrating milestones this year… With 2017 now underway, it’s time to stop looking at what happened in film in 2016, and start looking forward to the new year by looking back. Here are some film anniversaries you can look forward to. 2017 will mark the tenth […]
Avatar: The Franchise That Keeps on Spawning
Tony Black on James Cameron’s ever-expanding Avatar series… James Cameron just won’t let this go, will he? Having spent the last decade almost in development and finally pre-production on a sequel to Avatar, his 2009 3D science-fiction epic which remains the most lucrative film ever made (only second even to Gone With the Wind, adjusted for […]
