In recent years, cinema and the box office have been dominated by the reign of Marvel comic or DC comic book film adaptations, with the likes of Avengers Assemble, The Dark Knight and even G... Read more
A wealth of films with memorable and dynamic music scores have been released in 2013 but with the year gradually drawing to a close, I look back on some of the best. Granted, t... Read more
Very little can be said about Ridley Scott’s seminal 1979 classic Alien that hasn’t already been said many, many times before. Despite this, words (even infinite in abundance) will never les... Read more
In recent times, Ron Howard’s directorial offerings have been, to say the least, erratic. In the same decade, he has brought to the screen such cinematic delights as A Beautiful Mind and Fro... Read more
Every year without a doubt the Academy Awards throw the film-watching public into disarray by naming one film that the academy has deemed heads and shoulders above the rest. The chosen film... Read more
By definition, an anti-hero is a protagonist lacking many of the heroic or idealistic qualities that would be expected in a main character. Anti-heroes invert the protagonist archetype and a... Read more
There is a pandemic sweeping the film industry these days, they’re called sequels. Hollywood has a dismally extensive track record of unnecessary and needless sequels that neither buil... Read more
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