Hollywood. Bollywood. Pinewood. These are some of the most successful places for a film to be made, placed in America, India and the UK, all of which have a mainly positive reputation. The British film industry has always been a well perceived one (since the 1930s) and often revolutionary, be it from it’s famous James Bond or Harry Potter to its lesser known ones.
It’s a common misconception that the British film industry only does British films. Recently it has done Gravity, American actors, Mexican writers. Not only that but future blockbusters will be or are being made here, such as the next Star Wars movie or The Avengers 2. There are good [...]
I don’t think this is a Superman sequel any more. With so much attention being drawn to Marvel it is only right to talk about DC. Whilst the initial prospect was promising, announcements made by the studios developing this film have quelled my excitement. I fear DC are attempting to overcompensate for their lack of a ‘Justice League’ by bloating ‘Batman vs Superman’. The recent ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2‘ was designed to introduce the ‘Sinister Six’, by the sound of things ‘Batman vs Superman’ is heading the same way; a sequel is being made just to accommodate another sequel. Terrible casting choices have been made and too [...]
‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier‘ is the definitive successor of ‘The Avengers’ as it is far superior to ‘Iron Man 3’ or ‘Thor: The Dark World”. As a standalone film, it is one of the finest comic-book films ever crafted as it boasts an intricate plot combined with humour in the midst of stunning action sequences. It’s tone wavers between that of Avengers and the realism of the Dark Knight franchise and thus achieves the perfect tone – necessary humour which is subsumed in the tense, alarming plot. This film in particular gives justice to Captain America and [...]
