If there’s one thing that you can be certain of, Hollywood loves consistency. Mainly in terms of the projected return on the budget, mainly by sticking doggedly to themes and tropes that have a proven track record. Some may dislike this, clamouring for more ingenuity … Continue reading Ultraviolet (2006)
Comics have come a long way since their inception. Once dismissed as a childish pastime has become a global industry with the obscurest of comic-book heroes becoming household names among millions. But to get to this point required disruption, as the family focused consumers of … Continue reading Cool World (1992)
Cool Britannia, an era of the late 90s when loving Britain was the peak of fashion. Everything that celebrates the Sceptred isles past and its future was in. In 1998, at the height of this trend, a British institution saw its adaptation to the big … Continue reading The Avengers (1998)
Drama is abundant in the world of business: Trade secrets, corporate espionage, deception… just to secure the custom of a client, just to do it all over again. It makes sense that so many of the greats of television, theatre, and film, have settings in … Continue reading Misconduct (2016)
Tie-in games have had something of a bad rap. Often seen as a cheap, hastily produced time wasters that attempt to do nothing more but to literally tie into the film’s success, hence their names. It makes the rare cases, where tie-in product actually bucks … Continue reading R.I.P.D. The Game (2013)
Death, as it has been said before, is the ultimate end, and it can be hard for us to come to terms with that. Some of us have unventured paths we wanted to travel, and others simply just become accustomed to living. As such, it … Continue reading R.I.P.D. (2013)
Kind of like the issues surrounding automated car travel, automated space travels has a whole range of obstacles that have yet to be contemplated. With the nearest habitable system many lifetimes away, suspended animation of the human colonists is likely the only way to go. … Continue reading Passengers (2016)
