Category: Film
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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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‘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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‘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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Nostalgia and Self-Reference in Movies
Watching any recent sequel to a legacy franchise can feel like you’re playing nostalgia bongo, with the amount of references and callbacks to previous moments from the franchise’s history. Think the mini Stay Puft marshmallow men in Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire, or the reuse of famous quotes in Alien:…
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‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’: A Sad Ending to the Sequel Trilogy
When I think of The Rise of Skywalker, I can’t really be as hard on this movie as I might. Yes, it’s bad, but it came off the back of something even worse, The Last Jedi. It had to try and fix that movie’s problems and bring the whole sequel…
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‘Jurassic Park 3’ is an Older Kind of Sequel
Hollywood loves a sequel and so do fans, so it’s no surprise that when a movie does well enough at the box office, it inevitably leads to the studio making a follow up, keeping fans engaged without having to go through the trouble of starting a completely new franchise and…
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