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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Suicide Squad has turned out to be one of the best action and superhero movies of the last decade. A perfect combination of all the best of traditional superhero movies, mashed up with the new phenomena of superhero teams, antiheroes and stories justifying and humanizing villains from traditional superhero comics. It is a feast for […]
So many people nowadays seem to try and define a generation or an era of art by the more serious works. Which is good, we need people to tell us which films best represent the struggles that created the world we have today, or which pictures gave us great leaps in CGI and style. But […]
Not gonna lie, I am not the biggest fan of action films myself. I just don’t get the appeal of sitting there watching people fighting, or crawling through dirt, or racing cars for an hour and a half. I am sure for many people the adrenaline rush, the association with the characters and the overall […]
So Ghost in the Shell is being made into a live action film and Attack on Titan is already there. We’ve had Death Note for a while, and, for all the soap opera effect, it’s pretty cool. I think I sense a trend coming! At least I hope so. Because there are some pretty amazing […]