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It is known that the vast majority of stories, whether true life, novels, or comics, sold to Hollywood will never become a film. The rights get sold, then the person who bought them doesn’t get enough funding, or the studio goes under, and the film rights can’t be sold again. Even if everyone involved is […]
My Little Pony is a cultural force in kids television, bringing back the 70s and 80s traditions of making kids cartoons deep, meaningful, and able to tackle complicated social issues by transforming them into arguments even the youngest child could grasp. For this reason it is loved by children of all ages, as well as […]
For those of us following the Kingsman series: it’s finally here! For those not following: Kingsman is amazing, and it’s here. Following in the steps of Austin Powers, Kingsman is a British spy comedy based on an original comic book series. The original instalment was way back in 2014, as Kingsman: The Secret Service. In […]
Let’s face it, most documentaries are not exactly thrilling. Plenty of them are just a constant stream of very specialized images that are only really interesting to people with nothing to do or to experts in a very particular field of research or work. Many more are far too detailed, or far too tedious, they […]
The first Harry Potter book was published in 1997 and its early reception gave no indication of the enormous international phenomenon it would become. J. K. Rowling’s agent moved from publisher to publisher as each rejected the idea. It was too outlandish, too odd, too… new. However the second it was accepted by Bloomsbury, it […]
Is it that time of year again? Yes, why yes it is. And if you’re reading this, there’s probably someone out there you just can’t think of a present for. Maybe you have got something perfect for everyone else in the family, but are stumped as to what to get for one particular person. Or […]
Picking a movie for a first date can be a gruelling task. You want to show your potential significant other who you really are, open up a bit and test whether they are compatible with you or whether your tastes, opinions and even your worldview is completely different. But on the other hand you want […]
The battle of the sexes is a concept as old as time itself. And really, it makes sense. At the end of the day, most of the people on this planet are straight and those who aren’t grew up under the unfair expectation they would be straight. So we grow up thinking that these mysterious […]
I get it, I really do. We’ve grown up among the privileged who spoke English from birth, or at least very early childhood. That means we’ve never had to work hard to understand a film, never had to miss out on a big release, never had to sit through some painful voice-overs of our favourite […]
Teen flicks are an odd phenomenon from the perspectives of both children and adults. For children, they speak of absolute nonsense worlds, annoying people, strange relationships, not to mention the highly unrealistic portrayals of school life. For adults they seem to sit somewhere between childishness and adulthood, with unrealistic expectations, exaggerated idealism, but genuinely mature […]