Chris Hemsworth: Not Just a Pretty Face Carmen Paddock October 12, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale – out this week – looks like a hell of a ride, especially with the stellar ensemble cast. Chris Hemsworth's role might be one of the smaller ones, but the...
What’s the Meta? How The Cabin in the Woods Subverted Horror James Andrews October 11, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Screenwriter extraordinaire Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, World War Z, The Martian) is back with his second feature as a director, Bad Times at the El Royale. His latest finds a group of strangers unravelling a...
Justice League – Review Joni Blyth November 15, 2017 Reviews "It’s not about the hits you take, it’s about how you get back up.” - Muhammad Ali The DC Extended Universe has taken quite a beating on its way to Justice League. A commercial failure here, a false...
Best Films Never Made #39: Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman Carmen Paddock May 30, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features The DC Extended Universe is rapidly expanding this year; while one film shy of Marvel’s 2017 output, hopes are high for Wonder Woman and Justice League to redeem the lacklustre receptions given to last...
Which Disney Movies Deserve A Remake Next? Joni Blyth March 14, 2017 Opinion Disney’s Beauty and the Beast live action remake is finally here and whether you’re excited, resentful or just plain uninterested – this is only the start. The House of Mouse have already announced a...
Making It Big: A Place Among the Undead Tom Bond November 5, 2015 Features, Independent, Making It Big Every generation has its iconic vampires: from Dracula to The Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire to Buffy, and True Blood to Twilight. Now, the star of one of those shows has taken to Indiegogo to create...
Avengers: Age of Ultron – Review Christopher Preston April 21, 2015 Reviews Age of Ultron moonwalks assuredly past Second Album Syndrome, but doesn’t get to be the Avengers’ The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a barnstorming cyclone of spectacle, yet never manages to recapture how...
A Beginner’s Guide To New Hollywood Eddie Falvey October 30, 2014 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 1 Comment New Hollywood isn’t actually that new at all; in fact, the name demarcates a period of intense creativity, crisis, and change that occurred between the late 1960s and the early 1980s within the Hollywood...
Top 10 Superhero Films of All Time Tom Bond May 31, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 5 Comments As the superhero franchise machine rumbles on, it seems like an appropriate time to look back at the history of the genre. I’ve explored its past, present and future and now I’m here to put my neck on the...
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...
