So, as some may know and I’ve previously mentioned in an editorial, I am trying to watch as many new movies as I can in 2018 in order to keep up with what everyone’s talking about online, and also just because I love going to the cinema. I love the excitement before going into the…
2017 came to a close with one of the most notable acquisitions in entertainment history, with Disney seeking to acquire 21st Century Fox. In an industry that Disney have stomped through for the last decade and transformed through buying big franchises, the question has to be asked: will we have Marvel and Star Wars films…
Marvel and Netflix have had a long, very successful and very prosperous relationship to this point, but according to reports a Netflix-Marvel divergence could be on the cards as Disney (who own Marvel) try to push their own streaming platform ‘Disney Life”. Doing so would spell the end of series such as Jessica Jones, Luke…
I don’t need to be a mathematics student (which I am most definitely not) to know that ‘Marvel Studios + Benedict Cumberbatch = endless nerd joy’. QED. So when I found out that the giant of comic book movies had cast the great actor – who captured the hearts and imaginations of our generation as…
Everyone remembers the days, not too long ago, when every action- or animated-movie had a licensed game to go along with it. Most of them were pretty terrible, but a fair number of them were actually good. Games like Shrek 2, Ratatouille, and countless James Bond games were all brilliant. The idea of making these…
Jessica Jones is the second Netflix Original Series being made using Marvel properties, the first being this year’s Daredevil. In many ways this now show follows in the footsteps of Daredevil, it’s gritty tone, it’s New York setting, less fantastical protagonist and antagonists and generally it’s air of quiet detachment from the bombast and larger…