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Like All Winners, Star Wars Gets Attacked, But I’d Rather Celebrate Its Success

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Samuel Brace on the Star Wars saga… Is Star Wars in crisis? Please. Let’s not lose our minds, let’s celebrate its success. With the recent news that Star Wars: Episode IX has lost its director, Colin Trevorrow, coming off the back of news regarding the Han Solo movie and how it has also changed its […]

The directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade

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Tom Jolliffe on the directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade… There’s a cinematic crossroads on the horizon. As the market gets swallowed up by a core consumer taste leaning toward spandex and radioactive arachnid bites, there’s a need for modern thinking, engaging directors to offer something different. After all, there’s only […]

Avengers: Infinity War trailer lands today, 20 more MCU movies, Jumanji getting positive reviews and more – Daily News Roundup

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INFINITY WAR TRAILER The hotly-antitipated trailer for Avengers: Infinity War was teased a lot yesterday, with Marvel Studios officially announcing it will be released today on November 29th 2017. Check out the announcement here. INFINITY WAR POSTER And a brand new teaser poster was also released. Don’t get too excited though – there’s very little […]

Forget Avatar, We Need A New Terminator Film Now

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Neil Calloway wants James Cameron to return to the franchise that made him sooner rather than later… While the news that James Cameron will return to The Terminator films is welcome, it really can’t come soon enough. Given that the last of the Avatar movies won’t be out until 2024, it would be 2025 at […]

The Cinematic Universe Fascination: A Bigger Picture Obsession

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Tom Jolliffe on Hollywood’s fascination with the shared cinematic universe… Marketing, labelling, packaging. It’s everywhere. In cinematic terms it’s more important than ever. Everything is governed by men with clipboards. Or the modern equivalent. I suppose it’s all tablets now. I’m a cave dwelling Cro-Magnon man, so I wouldn’t know but there’s an inherent need […]

The Genesis of the Excessively Long Action Scene

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Tom Jolliffe on the genesis of the excessively long action scene… It has become almost the norm now. The majority of large-scale action blockbusters will have a hugely elaborate, and extremely long set piece in them. In fact some may have several. It used to be that maybe 5-10 minutes at the end of a […]

Dunkirk: Its Greatness and Its Finest Moments

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Samuel Brace on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, its greatness and its finest moments… This is what cinema looks like. Greatness is a word that gets thrown around a lot, used and abused until it means very little at all. But Dunkirk, the WWII drama/thriller by Christopher Nolan is indeed greatness; in fact, greatness is a descriptor […]

TV Shows to Look Forward to in the Rest of 2017

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2017 has been a great year for television so far. There have been surprise classics like The Young Pope, departing shows ending on an all time highs like The Leftovers, and series that have never been better, such as the third season of Better Call Saul. Game of Thrones has also just kicked off, and […]

We’re Now Powered By Nostalgia More Than Ever!

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George Chrysostomou on nostalgia… Upon reading Anghus Houvouras’s piece on why everyone is hating on Ready Player One, a key theme of his argument really hit home – it struck me that there really ise a lot of nostalgia in the current crop of films and TV shows. Now, I know that this has always been present. Every […]