Maleficent legacy featurette
Ahead of its imminent cinema release a short featurette has been released to promote the live action Disney film Maleficent. The featurette goes behind the scenes to focus on the legacy of the film w...
Category Archives: Fantasy
300: Rise of an Empire
Back in 2006 I stumbled onto 300 in the cinema as a “nothing else on” choice. I had watched the trailers and had been generally underwhelmed. In the end I enjoyed both the visual style an...
The Zero Theorem
For the majority of film makers today the biggest obstacle to getting their projects made is money. It does not matter how good the story is and, in most cases, who is attached. It all comes down to ...
The Chronicles of Riddick
It is difficult to find a contemporary Sci-Fi film that doesn’t try to please everyone. The gritty Elysium from last year, had a storyline that was almost a joke due to it’s overly earnes...
Troll 2
Films as a general rule, are meant to entertain. And in order to entertain, regardless of the genre, it is generally accepted that a few principles need to be adhered to. For instance, the acting a...
Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Firstly, can I just say how nice it is to see so many people online who are cine-literate enough to reference Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 film Battle Royale when issuing online put downs of the Hunger Game...
The Dystopianest Dystopia Ever
What happens when you take a view of the modern world with its seemingly increasingly reliance on technology and take that view to one very logical conclusion? What could be possibly be facing in the...
Endtrip
The visualisation of an overdose is something that has been portrayed a number of times on the cinema screen. One of the most memorable for me was the scene in trainspotting where Renton sinks into ...
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Only just released is the first official trailer for the second part of the Hobbit trilogy. The Desolation of Smaug finds our band of heroes fresh from their initial adventures with the one ring in t...
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Just released is the new trailer for the The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Adapted for the screen from the first of the of the highly successful young adult book series, the story finds a young...