Neil Calloway isn’t looking forward to one of 2018’s most anticipated movies… It is a dark time for the rebellion. Those words, the first in the opening crawl of The Empire Strikes Back, could apply to the current state of the Star Wars universe. Whatever you think of the films, you have to accept that […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Isn’t As Good Or Bad As You Think It Is
Neil Calloway tries to find middle ground with the latest Star Wars film… Warning: contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It’s been over a week, you’ve had time to go through the stages of grief and finally come to acceptance that The Last Jedi is a fairly decent film, or if you won’t […]
Why Winston Churchill Continues To Fascinate
Neil Calloway looks at why Britain’s wartime leader is rarely off our screens… It’s a great pub quiz question; which character has been played by Brendan Gleeson, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney, Brian Cox and Christian Slater? The answer is, of course, Winston Churchill. I normally roll my eyes when I go to a […]
Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has A Lot To Live Up To
Neil Calloway on why the second films in Star Wars trilogies are the best… Unless you’ve been hiding out on Dagobah or in the Outer Rim Territories, you’ll be aware that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is released this week. It’s a Star Wars movie, so has a lot to live up to, but it’s […]
In Praise Of The Short Series
Neil Calloway wishes TV producers would quit while they are ahead… The news was as disappointing as it was depressingly inevitable. The Night Manager – the best “limited drama” (we used to call them miniseries, but that makes it sound like a cheap daytime melodrama) of last year, is getting a sequel. I should be […]
Why It’s Time To Give The Franchise Movie A Break
Neil Calloway argues that sometimes a rest is a good as a change when it comes to franchises… I don’t care. I hope I’m not alone, but I do not care in the slightest whether Ben Affleck continues to be Batman or when the next Terminator movie is out. I’d rather they didn’t happen at […]
Let’s Not Kid Ourselves Why Kevin Spacey Has Been Cut From Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World
Neil Calloway isn’t convinced Kevin Spacey is being axed from his next film for the right reasons… I have to take my hat off to Ridley Scott, and admire his ruthlessness in cutting Kevin Spacey from his latest film and replacing him with Christopher Plummer. There are plenty of reasons Scott has had such a […]
Disney’s Crazy Star Wars: The Last Jedi Demands Make Sense
Neil Calloway understands why Disney are demanding such a high percentage of the box office for the new Star Wars film… Early tracking (though how they work out how much a film is going to make more than a month before it’s out is beyond me) suggests that Star Wars: The Last Jedi will have an […]
Let’s Kill The 90s Revival Before It Begins
Neil Calloway isn’t happy about the spate of upcoming 90s remakes… It’s a cliché to say Hollywood has run out of ideas, but clichés only become clichés because they contain an element of truth, and with the possibility of remakes of some films from the 1990s nobody really wants to see, it looks like Hollywood […]
Why David Fincher Is Right And Wrong About Marvel
Neil Calloway asks whether making movies for Marvel is what directors want… David Fincher has become the latest director to stick his oar in and have a slight pop at Marvel studios. Nothing surprising there, it’s sort of his job to fly the flag for grown up drama and it’s certainly his job to get […]
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