Making a satisfying sequel is one of the most daunting tasks a filmmaker can face. Usually, a sequel only goes into production if the original film has a notable level of popularity, which means there’s already a fanbase...
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Most filmmakers are lucky if they make one masterpiece over the course of their career. Luckier still if they manage to make one classic (A ‘masterpiece’ is a film without faults. A ‘classic’ is a film...
It is becoming more and more difficult to pull off historical epics convincingly. We can create massive battles and recreate period accurate landscapes with a bit of help from our computers, but there is some magic lost in the...
As Bob Dylan said, ‘the times they are a changing’. As the times change, the landscape of cinema seems to be changing too. With that change comes a lot of resistance. After Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix film Roma...
Like any self-respecting film nerd, I love Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991). It’s pretty much accepted by pop culture that T2 is one of the greatest movies ever made, but it was T1 that inspired me...
