Category Archives: Non classé

One of my friends told me something that made me want to write this article and I think it opens the argument quite well: « It’s self-wanking and we are supposed to take it and call it art because of eye shadow and nails. » So, it took me a while to watch HBO Euphoria,Continue reading “Euphoria is trauma-porn”

Fiction films can be sorted into two categories: ones part of a franchise, or standalones. In the past couple of years, Hollywood has produced several sequels of films known previously as standalone, often made decades after the original came out in the theaters. In 2018, 36 years after the original ‘Blade Runner‘ (Ridley Scott, 1984), ‘Blade RunnerContinue reading “Long awaited sequels: actors fighting for the spotlight”

Marking the mid-season of ‘The Walking Dead‘ season 10 (2010- Frank Darabont), gore packed ‘Stalker‘ came out last night, 2nd March 2020. Currently reaching an audience score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, the episode lived up to the show’s IMDb title of best Zombie TV series ever made. However, the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series has not been doing great,Continue reading “Waiting for Rick Grimes: ‘The Walking Dead: World Beyond’.”

Three days ago on the 28th February 2020, Marvel Production and Sony Pictures announced the air date for Spider-man 3 for 16th July 2020. However, the journey to get that film commissioned for the screen has been chaotic. In 1998, bankrupt Marvel Studios proposed Sony to buy sold 900 comic-book characters for a total of 25 million USD. However,Continue reading “Sony’s Marvel Universe complications: Spider Man 3”

The first ever feature film to have a female super hero as a lead character was DC ‘Supergirl‘ (1984, Jeannot Szwarc). However, it’s not the character everyone thinks of in terms of groundbreaking gender inclusion in superhero films.  Since ‘Iron Man‘ (2008, Jon Favreau), Marvel have established themselves as the goal to beat in terms of comic-bookContinue reading “DC and Marvel: a race for queer female super-heroes”

With the approaching release of ‘Mulan‘ on the 27 March 2020 by Disney, it seems relevant to take a look at the industrial reasons behind the company’s decision to commission live action remakes of their animated films.  Since ‘Maleficent‘ (2014, Robert Stromberg), Disney started producing animated live action remakes every year, starting with ‘Cinderella‘ (2015, Kenneth Branagh), followedContinue reading “Disney live action fever”

Cast ethnic diversity has a always been at the center of conversations in the Hollywood cinema industry. According to the Hollywood Diversity Report, there has been a slight improvement throughout the years.  However, these numbers are still very much unequal when compared to the United States demographic. Currently the USA is 60.4% white when the Hollywood films’Continue reading “Hollywood reboots ethnic diversity”

Starting with ‘Metropolis’ (Fritz Lang, 1927), passing by ‘2001: Space Odyssey‘ (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) and the legendary ‘Star Wars‘ (George Lucas, 1977), the 20th century has established the science-fiction genre as a giant within the cinema industry. Now considered as one of the best cyberpunk movies ever made, The Matrix‘ (Wachowskis, 1999) finished the era with a bangContinue reading “The cult Wachowski Sci-Fi franchise is back: Matrix 4”

The last ‘Game of Thrones’ (2011-2019, David Benioff, D.B Weiss) episode came out in May 19, 2019 and the TV show universe is in mourning.  As the season ended, a lot of HBO viewers threatened to cancel there subscription to the streaming platform.  It was not actually that bad as HBO only experience a revenue loss of 16% in theContinue reading “Game of Throne Legacy: Netflix and The Witcher”

Looking at the highest grossing movie franchises of all time , Disney largely dominates the top ten with their Marvel Cinematic Universe which, thanks to ‘Captain Marvel’ (2019, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck), ‘Spider-man: Far From Home’ (2019, Jon Watts), and ‘Avengers: Endgame’ (2019, Russo’s Brothers), grossed worldwide around 5 billion dollars in 2019. Following closely on the list, comes the 40Continue reading “Why ‘The Mandalorian’?”