With Henry Cavill set to don the cape once more, is it time to reconsider Zack Snyder’s contribution to the DCEU? While in 2022 there is seemingly a new (if slightly tired) super-powered blockbuster showing at your local picture house every fortnight, the cinematic landscape in 2013 was a different prospect all together. The superhero […]
CW: domestic abuse, violence Every September, as soon as jumper weather arrives and the leaves start changing colour, I welcome in the Autumn by watching Practical Magic. It’s a perfect seasonal film, featuring witches, idyllic New England landscapes, and a soundtrack full of Stevie Nicks and Joni Mitchell. What’s not to love? A lot, according […]
Michael Angarano and Mike White in Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
Audiences loved Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), but its sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), was just a bit too much to be enjoyable. The latest film in the franchise, The King’s Man (2021)- a prequel narrating the birth of the secret service agency- has received subpar reviews. The film has been dismissed as inconsistent, […]
Frank Herbert’s classic Sci-Fi Novel, Dune, has been adapted for the big screen once again. In light of the praise that Denis Villeneuve’s film has received, it is perhaps worth reflecting on the first, and much maligned, attempt to adapt the book. The near-universal contempt for David Lynch’s Dune (1984) may be surprising for those […]