Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Review Calum Baker November 21, 2018 Reviews After leaving The Crimes of Grindelwald, the tenth film in the Wizarding World cine-verse, your appreciation for J.K. Rowling may reach its lowest point yet. Oh, sure, Fantastic Beasts part one was delightful,...
All the Money in the World: Replacing and Recreating Actors Carmen Paddock January 3, 2018 Analysis, Features, Opinion Christopher Plummer is doing very well this year, mainly in the sense that he is a well-regarded man in Hollywood who is not in the midst of a sexual harassment or assault scandal. Furthermore, his turn as J....
Your Week In Film: Who Cares About Anything Else? We’ve Got The Last Jedi Trailer! David Brake April 14, 2017 News 1. WE HAVE A TRAILER FOR THE LAST JEDI! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB4I68XVPzQ&feature=youtu.be The trailer the internet has been waiting for has landed. We've now been given a glimpse into director...
Seat in Shadow – BFI Flare 2017 Review L D March 22, 2017 Reviews When, in 2007, J.K. Rowling announced Dumbledore was gay, the internet duly responded (such as this stroke of genius: "While the anagram to ‘Tom Marvolo Riddle’ is ‘I am Lord Voldemort’, ‘Albus...
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Filmmaking Decisions Cathy Brennan January 10, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance If you clicked on this article, hoping for a pleasant piece of hagiography on a forgotten family film from 2004, then I am sorry to say you have taken a wrong turn. What we have here is not a happy tale of...
Adapt to Fit: Authors as Screenwriters and the Mechanics of Industry Adaptation Rachel Brook November 18, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features The release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks J.K. Rowling’s first screenwriting credit. Yet authors adapting their own work for the screen is neither a new nor a particularly rare practice....
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Review Tori Brazier November 17, 2016 Reviews Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is surely one of the most hotly anticipated films of 2016, so getting right to the (hor)crux of the matter: it is suitably magical. Affable magizoologist and...
Could JK Rowling Become the New George Lucas? Jack Blackwell November 17, 2016 Analysis, Features, Opinion The impact of – and worldwide love for – JK Rowling's Harry Potter franchise can never truly be dimmed, but this doesn’t mean that the legacy of those seven books and eight films is invulnerable. The...
Harry Potter and the Movie Marathon Stephen O'Nion November 16, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off I have seen the Harry Potter films before—it’s currently a legal requirement for British citizens—but long enough ago that most of the twists and turns that weren’t announced on banners suspended over...
Casting Call – Young Dumbledore Tom Bond November 11, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Casting Call, Features With Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first film in J.K. Rowling’s fledgling magiverse, hitting cinema screens this week, Warner Bros. have capitalised on the publicity with two casting...
Your Week In Film: Missions, Magic And Men Of The Spider Variety Stephen O'Nion November 11, 2016 News 1. Fox goes back to the drawing board for the X-Men franchise With Hugh Jackman bowing out of Wolverine duties after Logan and Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult all out...
10 Fictional Movie Languages We’d Love To Learn Phil W. Bayles November 10, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The idea of visitors from other worlds is one of the oldest in all of science fiction, but Denis Villeneuve's new film Arrival is one of the very few that poses a genuinely thorny problem: how would we...
What’s The Best YA Film? Tom Bond March 10, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features This week sees the Young Adult sub-genre stumble onwards into yet another dystopian future with the release of The Divergent Series: Allegiant. The sub-genre has thrived since the early noughties when the...
Spotlight: Daniel Radcliffe Nick Evan-Cook December 2, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Daniel Radcliffe may not be the most naturally gifted actor in the world, but he is so hard working, has so much charisma to burn and is just so darn likeable that you can’t help but root for him as his...
How to Finish A Franchise: The Hunger Games Madeline Joint November 17, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion Endings are hard. For a series with millions of fans, with a thousand different opinions, endings are downright impossible; to get it right is to deliver the spectacular climactic finale loyal fans have hung...
