Category: Film

Films, movies, cinema, and everything in between.

Streaming Wars are Creator Wars

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has had a good week. Not only did she win a bunch of Emmy Awards for Fleabag, her universally acclaimed sitcom/drama, but she is the latest in a long line of creators to sign a humongously expensive first-look deal with a streaming service – $20m per year to exclusively develop content for Amazon…

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Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does Whatever Disney Can’t

WOAH WHAT THE FUCK The above is vaguely reminiscent of my initial response to last night’s news that Sony and Disney’s deal to creatively share Spider-Man, enabling him to feature in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (operated by Disney/Marvel Studios) while still being owned by Sony, is dead. It was a landmark deal back in 2015:…

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And Now My Watch Has Ended

So I’ve finally started watching GAME OF THRONES And I can’t stop watching I love it Asdfghjwerfghb Read the books. Hell no, they’re like 1000 pages each. -May 18th, 2013 Most of those words were written by a young boy, an unequivocal sweet summer child, who, little did he know, had just discovered a story…

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VICES of Power

Spoilers for Vice. Vice is both brilliant and frustrating. As a big, big, big fan of The Big Short and Anchorman, I was ridiculously excited for Adam McKay’s next political docu-drama, Vice, focusing on George W. Bush’s Vice President Dick Cheney. The Big Short proved that McKay’s move from comedy to political filmmaking (or rather,…

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Stan

I met Stan Lee in July 2014 at London Comic-Con. It was billed as his final UK visit, and I knew that, if I didn’t pay for an alarmingly-priced ticket I would never meet the man who played such an instrumental role in my childhood. I had to meet him. Who can pass up that…

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A Different Kind of Porn Video

Throughout the making of this, I kept referring to it as ‘Jason’s Porn Video.’ Oh, if only it were that exciting. No – this is tremendously exciting. New content! Good content! Well, I think it is…