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10 Directors Who Could Revitalise The Wizarding World
The Wizarding World franchise should be one of the jewels in Warner Brothers’ crown. However, the Fantastic Beasts spin-off series has been suffering from diminishing returns, both critically and financially. The Secrets of Dumbledore has suffered from The Crimes of Grindelwald’s negative reception because its opening box-office has been disappointing. The Wizarding World franchise, particularly the Harry Potter series still has fans. It’s a franchise […]
Pitch Time: A Live Action Dark Knight Returns Movie
The Dark Knight Returns is a graphic novel that hardly needs an introduction. It’s one of the most well-known graphic novels, it changed the public perception of the Caped Crusader, and arguably Frank Miller’s magnum opus. Along with Watchmen it was the graphic novel that ushered in the Dark Age of Comics. Elements of the graphic novel […]
Britflix: Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
The 2015 version of Far from the Madding Crowd is the fourth cinematic adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s famous novel. Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) is a free-spirited woman in 1870s Dorset. She inherits her uncle’s farm upon his death. Bathsheba also becomes the object of desire for three men, the rugged shepherd Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), mature bachelor […]
Britflix – Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman: The Secret Service was the film that Matthew Vaughn choose to do instead of X-Men: Days of Future Past. It was a decision that led to two great comic book films being created and started a kick-ass spy franchise. Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton) is a young man who has had a tough life. His dad […]
Britflix: The Awakening
The Awakening was an old-fashioned chiller. Released in 2011 it was an atmospheric horror flick. The First World War and Great Influenza Epidemic has caused millions of deaths. By 1921 people in England have started to believe in the supernatural. Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a rational sceptic and sets out to disprove the existence of ghosts. Robert Mallory […]
Britflix: Black Death
The Black Death was one of the traumatic events in world history. It was a pandemic that has been estimated to have killed between 75 million to 200 million people. This event serves as the backdrop for the Anglo-German horror film Black Death. In 1348 the Black Death is sweeping across England. It has even […]
Britflix: Ironclad
Ironclad is a rarity because it’s a British action film. It was one of many historical action films released in the early 2010s to capitalise on the success of 300. The year is 1215. King John (Paul Giamatti) has reneged on Magna Carta and hired an army of Danish pagans. William d’Aubigny (Brian Cox), an ennobled wool […]
Pitch Time: Bond 26
Daniel Craig’s time as James Bond has come to an end. Even though the end of No Time to Die’s credits says ‘James Bond Will Return,’ the 25th Bond film ended on a conclusive note, so Bond 26 will be a hard reboot. Seeing that I am a Bond fan and have ambitions to be a filmmaker I thought I would discuss what’s next […]
Bondathon: Spectre
Skyfall was the most successful Bond film. It was the first Bond film to make over $1 billion, has a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and won two Oscars, as well as winning other awards. EON Productions wanted to repeat that success and brought back SPECTRE for the first time since Diamonds Are Forever (or Never Say Never Again if you include […]