Opinion

Let’s face it: the world was a much warmer, cosier place back in 2000 when 20th Century Fox’s rebooted X-Men franchise first hit our screens. Gladiator was about to become one of the most beloved films of...

Biopics, historical dramas, films about Hollywood, war films. The key phrase continually thrown around by the masses that connects these genres is the demeaning qualifier “Oscar bait” – should the film...

Traditionally, the relationship between films and videogames has been strained at the best of times. Game-based movies, from Super Mario Bros. to the Resident Evil series, are pretty much uniformly awful....

You may have underestimated The Holiday. You may have thought that a film about two hot women house-swapping and finding love at Christmas isn’t the cinematic masterpiece your heart has been crying out for....

I was talking, late last week, to a friend who works at the Independent about the impending release on these shores of Nate Parker's once-heralded The Birth of a Nation. As our general displeasure with the...

It’s fair to say that Disney is on something of a roll at the moment. The House of Mouse’s output has been so consistently spectacular of late that some critics have decreed we are living in the “Second...

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...

Something that was constantly heard from Donald Trump's supporters on election night was that it was a victory for people who have long been ignored by the system. Less than 24 hours later, journalist Zach...

"Too much grease is bad for you. I read it in a fitness magazine someone left on the bus." All films are guilty of wanting something. Just look at 2016's offerings: March played host to the...

With the disappearance of notorious bigot and perpetual pain in the ass Ike Perlmutter, the future of Marvel looks bright. In the last decade Marvel Studios has released a long series of consecutive box office...

Oh, fiddley Ridley, you’ve gone and done it again… Almost exactly one year after its initial theatrical run, October 3rd will see a second home release for The Martian, Ridley Scott’s critically and...

Nearly all of us, if asked, could instantly point to a handful of films Tim Burton has directed, so distinctive is his style. Yet despite this distinctly privileged position, it's not hard to detect an...

If you’ve been paying even a little attention to the media circus around Suicide Squad, you’ll have heard about what Jared Leto’s been up to. Dead pigs, used condoms, boxes of bullets: you name it,...

In the wake of the Ghostbusters reboot there have been a spate of announcements of gender-swapped remakes. Rebel Wilson is set to star in a new version of the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and a new...

With the announcement of the Ghostbusters reboot and its all-female, all-SNL veteran leading cast, the internet divided in two. Or potentially a few more pieces. People mostly either embraced the idea of a new...