DC Comics has a great legacy of making Elseworld stories about their popular characters. One of the most famous was Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son which showed what would happen if Superman was brought up in the Soviet Union. In 1955 the Soviet Union announced to the world that they have Superman, changing the balance […]
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Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #9: The Future of Cinema
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the future of cinema.
Warner Brothers, HBO Max, and the Future of Film Distribution
Since the pandemic has struck the film distribution model has been disrupted. Many companies have tried and failed to make a profit from the Premium Video-on-Demand. Warner Brothers have made the radical decision to release all their 2021 scheduled films in cinemas and HBO Max at the same time. Reactions to Warner Brothers’ has been […]
Ready Player One Review
Nostalgia, Video Games, and Geek Culture have dominated the zeitgeist for over a decade. Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One smashed these ideas together and after it was a publishing success, led to it being adapted as a big-budget film by Steven Spielberg. In 2045 a lot of people escape their troubles by going into […]
Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max: Warner Brothers’ Risky Gamble
2020 has been a strange year due to the pandemic and had a massive effect on the film industry. Studios have been struggling to deal with it and on 17th December Warner Brothers have announced there are going to release Wonder Woman 1984 in cinemas and on HBO Max at the same time. This could […]
Doctor Sleep Review
In recent years there has been a renaissance in adapting Stephen King’s work. 2019 seeing three cinematic adaptations of King novels. Doctor Sleep completed the year and it was a film that had to honour King’s work and Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. After the events at the Overlook Hotel Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) has become […]
Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast Episode Four: The Harry Potter Franchise
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan share their love for the Harry Potter franchise and talk about what the future may hold.
Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite! Review
The Cats & Dogs series gets a third entry that was meant to be a straight-to-video film. However, due to the lack of releases in the UK Warner Brothers has given the film a theatrical release. Peace between cats and dogs has been achieved. But there are still forces that want to bring about conflict, […]
Bill & Ted Face the Music Review
After 29-years break the bodacious dudes’ Bill and Ted return for a third cinematic adventure. Since the events of Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, the titular characters have not written the song that would unite the world despite their best efforts. This has led to time and space starting to collapse. Bill and Ted get taken […]
Tenet Review
Cinemas around the world are starting to reopen and the big test for theatrical films is the release of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. After a mission in Kyiv, an unnamed CIA agent (John David Washington) gets recruited by a secret organisation that gives him two leads, a hand gesture and the word “tenet.” The agent gets […]