Sarah Myles has a close encounter with the shark movie genre…Movie trends ebb and flow, with thematically similar stories washing through our cinemas at regular intervals. War films, biopics, westerns, slasher movies, ghost stories – each has its season, and they return again and again in cyclical fashion. One trend that seems to be a […]
Cinema’s Damaged Heroine
Sarah Myles on cinema’s damaged heroine…“Badass.”As a word, it has become synonymous with determined women in movies. Why? Because that is how critics routinely describe them.“Black Widow gets extra bad-ass in this Avengers 2 trailer,” said Rob Bricken of i09.In Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron plays “a career badass who enjoys both the job and the […]
The LEGO Movie Franchise: The Marriage of Movies and Merchandising
Sarah Myles on The LEGO Movie franchise and the marriage of movie merchandising… Forty years ago, there was a seismic shift in the film industry, when Bernard Loomis of Kenner Toys decided that Star Wars was ‘toyetic.’ That shift, all those years ago, has led us on a journey of courtship between movies and merchandising, that […]
Theaters vs. Streaming: The Evolution of Cinema
Sarah Myles explores the great ‘Streaming Versus Movie Theatres’ debate, and discovers that everything is cyclical – even the evolution of cinema…Guess what? Cinema is not a static beast. It is a medium that is constantly evolving, and that evolution continues to be shaped by technological advancement – as it has always been. The issue, […]
