Author: Domonic Riley
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Could ‘Thunderbolts’ and ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ Be Big Hits This Year?
Two big franchises are making their return to the big screen this year, the MCU and the Jurassic World franchise. The former has a pretty stacked slate after only releasing Deadpool & Wolverine last year. Captain America: Brave New World lands later this month, with Thunderbolts* following in May, and…
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What Makes a Good Adaptation?
For quite a long time, almost as long as cinema has existed, movie studios have turned to adaptions to bring them their next big blockbuster, taking stories from the page and putting them on the screen. But despite the practice they’ve had, Hollywood still doesn’t seem to have found a…
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‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ Trailer: This Looks Familiar…
As Hollywood prepares for another year dominated by sequels, we’ve finally gotten a trailer for one of their big hopefuls, Jurassic World: Rebirth. Even though the movie isn’t out until July, and this is the first trailer we’ve had, it’s a pretty full one, revealing most of the plot, characters…
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The Need for New Ideas in Hollywood
The figures for the domestic (US) box office in 2024 were down just 3% on 2023, which doesn’t sound too bad, all things considered. It’s a total of over $8 billion all told, which sounds like a good number, until you start to look a bit deeper, and see what…
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Why is “binge watching” so popular?
One of the things I hate most about streaming is the ‘binge drop’, where an entire season’s worth of episodes are dropped all at once on streaming platforms like Netflix and Prime Video. They are bad for storytelling, bad for building fandoms, and don’t even seem like the most logical…
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‘Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron’ Book Review
The next step of my journey into the old Star Wars Expanded Universe takes me to the popular X-Wing series, by Michael A Stackpole, which begins with Rogue Squadron. The story is set a couple of years after the Battle of Endor and destruction of the second Death Star. Rogue…
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Don’t harm human creators with AI restrictions
AI, Artificial Intelligence, GenAI, Large Language Models, or whatever else you want to call them, or they want to be called. There’s a lot of talk about it, whether we might end up fighting Terminators, or trapped in the Matrix. Whether they are secretly in charge already, if they are…
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‘The Sea Beast’: A Disappointingly Good Movie
While browsing Netflix, I came across The Sea Beast. I’d heard about this movie before, and was looking for something animated to watch and the preview looked good, so decided to give it a go, and was surprised and disappointed by it. The film is a kind of historical fantasy,…
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‘Star Wars: The Last Command’ by Timothy Zahn Book Review
With The Last Command, Timothy Zahn brings his infamous trilogy of Star Wars novels to an end. Released in the early nineties, these books, known as the Heir to the Empire trilogy, went on to become some of the best loved examples of Star Wars literature. At the time, the…
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‘The Bounty’ (1984) Review
Of all the stories that could be told of the Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries, one seems to have captured the popular imagination more than any other; the tale of Captain William Bligh and the infamous mutiny on HMS Bounty that saw him put off in a…
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