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  • A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Casino Royale

    The narrative may be shockingly small-scale considering the franchise it would spawn, but Casino Royale remains a strong introduction to Fleming’s original vision of James Bond...
  • 2022 is the Year of Star Wars Prequel Validation

    Forget the trailers, the reveals, the early release of Obi-Wan Kenobi. For me, Star Wars Celebration 2022 was all about the 20th anniversary panel for Attack of the Clones. The film is perhaps the most derided in the saga, not in the shock-and-awe way The Phantom Menace disappointed but...
  • Celebrating 20 Years of My Favourite Star Wars Movie: Attack of the Clones

    Like with James Bond or Doctor Who, a first Star Wars movie is a formative event in a young fan’s life which will go on to inform their tastes in the franchise forever. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones was that Star Wars movie for me. It...
  • Investigating Every Sequel Tease in The Batman

    ?    GOOD BYE The Batman ends with the simplest riddle of all. Of course this isn’t goodbye. The film explored Batman’s psychological and greater perspective shift from the embodiment of vengeance to hope, something Gotham needs more than ever, but this is clearly a single step on a much...
  • The Great MCU Catch-Up: 2021 Edition

    2021 was a big year for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and for me it proved too big. While I try to keep up to date with all the films, and now Disney+ series, the sheer frequency of releases gave me that most subjective and personal of afflictions: franchise fatigue....
  • The Dark Subversive Heart of Home Sweet Home Alone

    Actual quality doesn’t matter with a new Home Alone film. The Internet will judge it harshly regardless. The original film is genuinely great but even so has now transcended to a Christmas classic, embroiled in nostalgia that hides any possible flaws and makes its generations of fans defensive about...
  • Riders of Justice is 2021’s Movie Masterpiece & Perfect Christmas Viewing

    Every piece of marketing for Riders of Justice leads you to make a wrong assumption about the film. The poster of a gun-wielding Mads Mikkelsen on a dark backdrop, the font that’s been used for every action movie for the past 15 years, and even the generic title makes...
  • Ranking Every Friday the 13th Movie

    One presumes ‘Camp Crystal Lake’ is named as such because it is where so many horror tropes were crystalised. Having taken inspiration from Giallo movies like A Bay of Blood, as well as John Carpenter’s Halloween, and Black Christmas before it, Friday the 13th became the ultimate slasher series....
  • Does No Time To Die Make Spectre Better or Worse?

    Daniel Craig’s James Bond films may form a single connected story arc but the transitions between films are rarely smooth. In a way, No Time to Die is a direct sequel to Spectre, but the two films ultimately offer vastly different approaches to the style, storytelling, and tone of...