Throughout the history of cinema, there’s been no shortage of good racing films, yet none of them have connected with mainstream audiences in the way that boxing, baseball or football movies often do. Even with amazing...
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...
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...
