Vintage Movie Magic in Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rhys Handley December 22, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Imagine getting to make a Star Wars movie. Imagine the millions upon millions of dollars Lucasfilm would leave in your lap. Imagine the stellar...
How The Last Jedi and The LEGO Movie Reject Chosen One Narratives Phil W. Bayles December 20, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Warning: this article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Two years ago, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released, we returned to the galaxy far, far away to find it just the way we left...
Team Talk – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rachel Brook December 17, 2017 Reviews It's that time of year again. Christmas? No. Time for a new Star Wars release! After the continuity-eschewing interlude of Rogue One, we're back in the franchise's main stable to catch up with the characters...
A Love Letter to Rian Johnson’s Looper Joni Blyth December 14, 2017 Analysis, Features, Love Letter The Last Jedi is going to make Rian Johnson a star. Since Summer 2014, the film world has waited in heady anticipation for not only the true follow-up to legendary sequel Empire Strikes Back, but also this...
‘There Is No Try’: Was Empire Strikes Back Lightning in a Bottle? Rhys Handley December 13, 2017 Analysis, Features, Love Letter Every sequel ever made is royally screwed. Those poor filmmakers can go back to their hit movies with the purest intentions and the best bundle of influences, but how many second instalments can really hold a...
Get a Room! Five Movies that deserve the souped-up screening treatment Joni Blyth November 28, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful The Room began with a dream, and a bundle of leather jackets. Tommy Wiseau set out to tell the story of Johnny, a hapless man struggling to keep his future marriage afloat, but in the process became a story in...
Your Week In Film: Giants, Mutants, Jedi, and Unobtainium! David Brake October 14, 2017 News 1. The fall of Harvey Weinstein To be upfront from the off, we are not the site to come to for insight around the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The wealth of female actors coming forward to produce a cacophony of...
Your Week In Film: Abrams Returns, Neeson Retires, Awards Season Restarts Stephen O'Nion September 15, 2017 News 1. Star Wars: Episode IX - a familiar hope J.J. Abrams will return to the Star Wars franchise, having inked a deal to direct Episode IX. ‘Twas ever thus. According to Deadline, Rian Johnson was initially...
Your Week In Film: Box Office, Bale, Bettany and Bond Stephen O'Nion September 8, 2017 News 1. Colin Trevorrow out as Star Wars director What is going on at Star Wars towers? A statement, released Wednesday on the official Star Wars website, reports that Colin Trevorrow – he of Jurassic World and...
How Well Do You Know Samuel L. Jackson? David Brake August 17, 2017 Quiz For many of us, it feels as though Samuel L. Jackson has never really been off the screen; he was simply born there, and we’ve been enjoying him ever since. Trawling through his entries on One Room With A...
Your Week In Film: Suicide Squad, Cena, Star Wars and more! Stephen O'Nion August 4, 2017 News 1. Don’t panic, but Star Wars: Episode IX just got a new writer Despite the fact that director Colin Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly have been working on the script for Star Wars: Episode...
What Are the Best Blockbusters of All Time? 10-1 Eddie Falvey July 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Only 10 remain of the 50 greatest blockbusters ever made. Tensions are high, you can feel the hum of excitement in the air as faint gasps cut the silence. Elsewhere, chairs yawn with the sound of bottoms...
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Blockbusters Tom Bond July 11, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion When you’re young it’s not cool to like blockbusters. It’s not really uncool either. They’re just a fact of life. Cinema and blockbusters are one and the same. Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana...
Your Week In Film: Day-Lewis Retired, Directors Fired, Ron Howard Hired Stephen O'Nion June 23, 2017 News 1. LucasFilm votes RON, appoints Ron to helm Han Solo A long time ago in a galaxy not so different from ours, two men were hard at work on adapting a beloved pop-culture property. They had assembled a fine...
The Book of Henry – Review Phil W. Bayles June 21, 2017 Reviews Gregg Hurwitz's screenplay for The Book of Henry has been searching for a director since the late 1990s. Watching the film, it’s not difficult to see why. Tonally, it’s all over the place. It starts as...