Film Features

Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the movie-making industry in general will know that Hollywood loves a successful franchise.  They are the modern-day equivalents of the genre pictures studios used to churn out in decades past, such as…

It was my last film screening in my first year of college. Exams and deadlines were just around the corner. The last thing I needed was a documentary about father and son paedophiles. But, there I was. Now here I am nearly four years to the…

How did a story featuring computer animated fish become one of the highest grossing films of 2003? Imagination and a great story helped Finding Nemo to the top of the box office. For me, it is also one of the best films of the 2000s. At its…

Released in 2003, The Italian Job is not a straight forward re-make of a much-loved film. The 2003 version uses some key elements from the 1969 original - the title, a once in a lifetime robbery, the Mini - to inspire a story about revenge…

In the first act of Rambo 3, Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) shoots down a Soviet attack helicopter with a mounted machine gun. In the second act of Rambo 3, Rambo shoots down a Soviet attack helicopter with an explosive arrow. In the final act…

Now that Avengers: Infinity War has released and the dust has settled (pun intended obviously!) on our heroes' journey until next summer's as yet untitled Avengers 4, Stuart Kilmartin looks ahead to life post-Avengers 4, and what the MCU…

Sequels are always a tricky prospect, especially to a film that was as much of a pop culture phenomenon as The Matrix. The Wachowski siblings had come, seemingly out of nowhere, with a bold thinker’s action movie; a film that combined the…

If there are two things that I can say with absolute certainty it's the following:  I love movies, and I love Metal Gear Solid. So the very real prospect of these two colliding in the soon to be Metal Gear Solid movie is one that fills me…

With Infinity War hitting cinemas this week I thought it proper to set in stone my views on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and to catalogue the journey we have taken to get here. Below you will find all released pre-Infinty War MCU…

People forget just how limited the scope for sitcoms could be back in the 1980s. Sitcoms nowadays rarely break new ground, regularly outshined by big-budget behemoths like Game of Thrones. TV in the 21st century has embraced its ability to…