Author: Domonic Riley
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What Does the Poor ‘Brave New World’ Box Office Mean for the MCU?
We now have the numbers for Captain America: Brave New World’s second weekend at the domestic box office, and it’s not good news. Over the weekend of the 23rd February, the movie brought in $28 million dollars. This is a drop of 68% from its debut, when it had an…
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‘Andor’ Season Two Trailer Breakdown: What Can We Expect From the Show?
Less than two months until its release, the first trailer for Andor season two has released, so what can we expect from the show?
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‘The Wild Robot’ Review: A Timeless, Heartwarming Movie
Late to the party as usual (though fashionably, I hope), I finally watched The Wild Robot. There’s been a lot of talk about this movie, with it being praised as one of the best movies of 2024, and certainly one of the best animated movies of all time, being heaped…
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Let James Bond Retire With Dignity
We’ve just had the news that Barbara Broccoli is stepping down as producer on the James Bond movies, giving creative control over to Amazon MGM. She’s the daughter of Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, and has been producing the series since Goldeneye in 1995. Naturally, there’s a lot of concern about…
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‘The Lost World’ by Michael Crichton Book Review
With The Lost World, Crichton manages to create a book that’s more intense, exciting and satisfying than Jurassic Park
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What Effect Will AI Have on Movies?
If you’re on the internet much nowadays, one thing you’ll not have been able to avoid is the topic of AI. Artificial Intelligence, GenAI, or Large Language Models, as it’s also known. Whatever you call it, it’s there: the images and videos, the attention seeking fake posts, the fan films,…
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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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