Your Week In Film: Top Gun started, Justice League Departed, Holland to Uncharted Stephen O'Nion May 26, 2017 News 1. Money, Money, Money begets Mo’ Money, Money, Money Mamma Mia! is getting! a sequel! And while nobody really called for it, excepting ABBA’s accountants, we’d be lying if we said we weren’t game....
Your Week In Film: Foy, Flash, Frost & Pegg Stephen O'Nion May 19, 2017 News 1. Jimmy Kimmel will get to have another go at this whole Oscars thing Prepare yourself for a whole lot more jokes about Matt Damon, folks! Jimmy Kimmel has been announced as the host of the 90th Academy...
Your Week In Film: Spider-Man, Nasty Women, Batgirl and more! Stephen O'Nion March 31, 2017 News 1. First Tomb Raider photos reveal no tombs. Sorry Although it's early days, with its release coming in March 2018, Warner Bros. has uploaded a few images of that infamous raider of tombs, Lara Croft. The...
Your Week In Film: Dracula, Dragons, Damian Lewis and more! Stephen O'Nion December 9, 2016 News, Reviews 1. Jimmy Kimmel is komming to host The Oscars Mr. Jimmy Kimmel is our host for the 2017 Academy Awards. Honestly though, this is not an announcement to overwhelm us with feelings of any kind; Kimmel is a...
Your Week In Film: Sausage Scandals, Sherlock, Suicide Squad Shame, and more! Stephen O'Nion August 19, 2016 News 1. Sausage Party animators denied screen credits and forced to work unpaid overtime Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg's Sausage Party might have seemed a risk, but for all intents and purposes it's a risk...
Your Week In Film: Ocean’s 8, Disney’s rich, Adam Sandler’s popular and more! Stephen O'Nion August 12, 2016 News 1. Bonham Carter, Hathaway and Rihanna dive into Ocean’s 8 It’s seven down, one to go for Ocean’s 8. The Gary Ross-directed reboot could already count Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett on board and now...
Suicide Squad – Review Joni Blyth August 5, 2016 Reviews It’s tough to follow a masterpiece, but it can be tougher to follow a failure. While the new Ultimate Edition has made some headway into redeeming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, all eyes are on Suicide...
Your Week In Film: Comic-Con, Wonder Woman, The Division, The Great Wall, and more! Stephen O'Nion July 29, 2016 News 1. Geoff Johns takes over DC, Comic-Con panel leaves fans intrigued Coming back from Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice was never going to be easy; even among those reviewers that weren't calling out for...
Batman V Superman: A Second Chance? Joni Blyth July 26, 2016 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance Picture the scene: it’s March of this year. Warner Bros. executives are sitting in a conference room. The atmosphere is chilly, and it’s not the air-con. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a film decades...
Your Week In Film: DC, Disney’s Dollars, And Lots More Stephen O'Nion May 20, 2016 News 1. Warner Bros. reorganises DC division, sets up a Harley Quinn spinoff After the $870 million-grossing “failure” that was Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. has made significant changes to...
Why The Modern Superhero Film Failed Tom Bond May 20, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion 5 Comments Last week I wrote an article explaining why the modern superhero film succeeded, and now here I am telling you the exact opposite. A bit hypocritical, right? But as much as the genre has wowed audiences and...
Best Films Never Made #16: Tim Burton’s Superman Lives Olivia Luder May 8, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 3 Comments The last time there was a decent onscreen incarnation of the Last Son of Krypton, the year was 1980 and Christopher Reeve landed Hollywood's biggest deus ex machina on Lois Lane in the form of a mind-wipe...
Best Films Never Made #10: Terry Gilliam’s Watchmen Tom Bond February 12, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 2 Comments Alan Moore’s legendary Watchmen was the catalyst for a sea change in the way both comic books and superheroes were viewed by the wider world. Deconstructing the clean-cut superhero myths of classics like...
Best Films Never Made #4: Darren Aronofsky’s Batman Patrick Taylor December 8, 2013 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 1 Comment About a year and a half has elapsed since Christopher Nolan’s fabled Dark Knight trilogy reached its conclusion. Such was the success of Nolan’s stewardship of the comic book legend, Warner Bros. was...
Gigli and the Fan Boys: Why Affleck Should Be Given a Chance David Brake August 25, 2013 Analysis, Features, Opinion 1 Comment The internet went to town following Warner Bros.' announcement that two-time Academy Award winner Ben Affleck, aged 41, is to be the new Bruce Wayne in Batman vs. Superman/Man of Steel 2. Social networks were...