With a remake, reboot, or sequel every week, it’s time to look at ten franchises that need to end… Look at a coming soon list of mainstream movies across the next 12 months and you’ll notice something. The titles all seem familiar. We’ve been there and we’ve done it already. Sometimes for 10 movies no […]
Is Cinema On Its Last Legs?
After some notable big-budget bombs, is the big screen experience on its last legs? Remember Barbenheimer? It felt like a shot of adrenaline that could reinvigorate a struggling big screen industry with audiences preferring to catch films on streaming. Had you been asked about your expectations for the success of a three-hour biopic of Oppenheimer […]
Three Recent and Wildly Overrated Sequels
They’ve all been championed as some of the best of their genre but are these bloated and overlong sequels really that good? I love event cinema, especially when it’s good and in recent years, although we’ve seen an increasingly mediocre output from Disney and Marvel, we’ve still seen some pretty great blockbuster cinema. Top Gun: […]
Exclusive Interview – Lorne Balfe on Gran Turismo, Mission Impossible, Tetris and more
Lorne Balfe has had an incredibly exciting 2023 working on some of the most successful blockbusters including Dungeons and Dragons, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and now Gran Turismo. We sat down with Lorne to discuss the scores for the films, how he balances his workload and moving from films to video games… Were you […]