2015 was a year of contrasting fortunes for movies. On one hand it was spectacular for the bigger movies with the top nine films released this year making up for forty percent of the box office takin...
‘Tis the month of good cheer, carol singers, jingle bells, and an endless deluge of Christmas movie re-runs. It is also traditionally a great month for cinema releases and 2015 looks no differe...
Fired up by the deeply moving Suffragette and the recent press about sexism in Hollywood, I have been thinking about the inequality in an art form that I love so much, I don’t think I could have made...
If there was any doubt about it then the new Star Wars trailer has proved that an image can say much more that a thousand words. We are so familiar with the concepts and the recurring characters that...
The Stars Wars Instagram account has just released a fifteen second trailer with previosly unseen footage. The main point to note from it is apparently seeing Finn (John Boyega) squaring up to Kylo R...
By far the most anticipated presentation of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con is the Star Wars Panel. As well as announcing details of the Han Solo stand alone film there was a behind the scenes ...
At long last some shots from the forthcoming Star Wars film have been posted in the form of a ninety second teaser trailer. These things by their very definition do not give too much away and only sh...
On the day that principal photography finished on the new Star Wars film it was announced on the official Star Wars twitter account that the film’s title will be The Force Awakens. The film, di...
Episode VII, J.J. Abrams, Disney…no matter how many of you are rolling your eyes at the new Star Wars film I’d bet my right kidney that if you’re reading this you’re already plannin...
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...