A Hyperspace Ride Through The Star Wars Saga: The Last Jedi (2017)
If we’ve now established that The Force Awakens was derivative and unoriginal by design, the next step in discussing Star Wars’ sequel trilogy is to understand how The Last Jedi acts as a binary opposition. Where JJ Abrams fell on the past to re-familiarise us…
A Hyperspace Ride Through The Star Wars Saga: The Force Awakens (2015)
As this decade rolls to an end, let’s begin our sequel trilogy writeup by pointing out another ten year span: the gap between George Lucas’ Revenge of the Sith and JJ Abrams’ The Force Awakens. After Lucas’ much maligned but not entirely unsuccessful prequel trilogy,…
REVIEW: Benjamin (2019)
A film as personal and autobiographical as Simon Amstell’s Benjamin risks alienating its audience. There’s a danger of diving so deep into one’s own personal and emotional history that the story you’re telling becomes too singular and perhaps not all that accessible. In his feature…
Freedom and Liberation in Mad Max: Fury Road
Geographically, Mad Max: Fury Road ends exactly where it begins. After a short prologue detailing the descent of the world and of humanity, we find ourselves deep within the Citadel, held and run by the tyrannical Immortan Joe. We watch as Max is brought there,…
REVIEW: Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
There’s at least one moment in Annabelle Comes Home, the seventh entry in The Conjuring’s Universe and the third of its own trilogy, that sends shivers down the spine. We know the scare is coming, everything in the frame and the soundtrack tells us so….
REVIEW: Game of Thrones – Season 8, Episode 2: “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms””
*Please note this post contains spoilers* If last week’s final season premiere found Game of Thrones looking into the past, then last night’s second episode was the binary opposite. “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” could easily lose the first K of its title,…
The Infinity Saga Ranked
Whichever way you look at it, Avengers: Endgame – which drops this Thursday, people!! – is a milestone for cinema. And what better way to celebrate a milestone than to look back at the journey that brought us there. That’s what we’ve been doing here…
Thor: Ragnarok (2017): THE INFINITY SAGA
I like to think of superhero cinema as not so much a genre itself, but as a mould. At no disrespect to superhero cinema, it’s rare to find films featuring caped crusaders or intergalactic heroes that break away from storytelling convention and craft plots built…
REVIEW: Us (2019)
Just how do you follow up a film like Get Out? It’s one of those films almost universally adored, the rare horror movie to go on and rack up not only Oscar nominations but even a win in the screenplay department. Its reputation remains untarnished….
REVIEW: How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
Closing a trilogy as strong as the How to Train Your Dragon one is no easy feat. After two films that took us on the journey of a boy becoming a man alongside his new found best friend, all the way through a brutal attack…
REVIEW: Game of Thrones (Season 1)
Before the dragons, before the wildfire, before the White Walkers and the blood magic and the battles, existed a little, almost identically Medieval HBO series known as Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones, obviously, is still very much present today, as the show soars towards…
REVIEW: Doctor Who (Season 11)
Doctor Who underwent its most notable change yet in 2018 as Jodie Whittaker became the Doctor. What was apparent almost immediately was that Jodie Whittaker became the Doctor, making the role her own instantly and effortlessly. Like a bolt from the blue (box), Whittaker’s charm and energy revitalised…
REVIEW: Disobedience (2018)
There’s a coldness to the core of Disobedience, Sebastián Lelio’s new romantic drama film, released months ago across the pond but only now here in the U.K. Its colour palette defined by greys and a general muteness, its characters bundled in coats and walking through clouded…
