Tagged Michael Keaton

Disney is showing no signs of slowing down in its effort to remake all of its classic animated films, but it is easy to justify taking a crack at Dumbo. Clocking in at just over an hour long, the 1941 original...

Tim Burton returns this weekend with his 19th feature film as director: a live-action version of Dumbo. While the lingering fascination with his films, and the cultural lure of a reimagined Disney gem like...

Thor: Ragnarok overcomes a lot of Marvel’s traditional problems – predictable three-act structure, bland quips and visuals – and turns its tics into triumphs – for example, crafting the inevitable and...

Nowadays it seems you can’t walk down the street without happening upon a film poster for the latest anti-terrorism actioner. And it appears that American Assassin is no different. Despite what is, for all...

In the past 15 years, we've had three Spider-Man franchises, and three web-slinging crusaders. With Spider-Man: Homecoming out this week, we get our youngest of them all in Tom Holland, with able support from...

Forget Tobey Maguire. Forget Andrew Garfield. Tom Holland is Spider-Man. He blows away all past competition with a star-making performance full of endearingly hyperactive charisma and a formidable screen...

The creation, and expansion, of McDonald’s in the 1950s is one of Western culture’s most important benchmarks. Its ramifications on the global economy have been staggering. The influence it continues to...

A scene-stealer that plays the title role in a film? How can that be? Well, Michael Keaton may have played the "starring role" in Beetlejuice (credited as "Betelgeuse"), but did you know he has just a...

1. Nominations announced for BAFTA Rising Star Award We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: democracy simply doesn’t work. That said, the “as voted for by you” BAFTA Rising Star Award has a...

Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I...

Ladies and gentleman, please take your seats for the warm-up fight, Batman v Batman v Batman (the fact we couldn’t find enough writers for a Superman debate probably tells you who would win the main contest...

"Wow. You know... What has to happen in a person's life to become a critic anyway? What are you writing? Another review? Is that any good? Is it? Did you even see it?" Michael Keaton is Riggan Thompson, a...

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has spoken! The Golden Globes 2015 results are in and there's a strong selection of winners. Richard Linklater's tremendous Boyhood scooped Best Motion Picture - Drama...

I act therefore I’m not. Riggan Thompson (Keaton) is selfless in the middle of an identity crisis, and selfish in his egotistical pursuit of an impossible play. Shadows of the mask he once wore as Birdman...

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...