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‘The task is simple: walk or die.’
The Long Walk (2025), directed by Francis Lawrence, is the latest Stephen King book-to-film adaptation. While the premise of the film simply is ‘walk or die’, The Long Walk carries so much more allure and emotional magnitude than this simple tagline might suggest.
Continue readingJames Gunn’s new Superman (2025), stars David Corenswet (a ridiculously charming rising star known for his recent roles in Pearl, Twisters, and Netflix’s Hollywood and The Politician) in the titular role, alongside Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as arch-nemesis Lex Luthor. This Superman movie cuts right into audiences’ hearts, bringing forth spades of laughter, joy, stark political commentary, and classic superhero/comic-book fun.
Continue readingRyan Coogler, best known for Marvel’s Black Panther films and Creed (2015), brings us one the most anticipated films of the year with his latest directorial feature Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan.
A compelling, evocative film which brings something new, inventive and genuinely sinister to the vampire genre, no easy feat in this post-Twilight world we live in. The vampire genre frequently feels it has been exhausted, but Coogler’s sweaty, music-driven horror piece set in the 1932 Jim-Crow American South – Mississippi to be exact – delivers a fascinating exploration of vampirism and African-American culture.
Continue readingTaking on a film adaptation of a text as Epic as The Odyssey is no small feat. The director of The Return (2024) Umberto Pasolini seemed well aware of this and was wise in his choice to adapt only a small section of Homer’s ancient Greek text for the screen. Focusing solely on Odysseus’s return to his home island Ithaca after 20 years of absence – spent fighting in the Trojan War (on the winning side) for ten years and then another ten trying to make his way back home – The Return omits any and all supernatural and divine elements of The Odyssey and instead attempts to portray a deeply human story.
Continue readingNosferatu (2024) is Robert Eggers’s striking and tenebrous gothic horror passion project. A twenty-first century adaptation of the 1922 F. W. Murnau silent German expressionist film of the same name, Eggers’s version of the classic vampire tale pays homage to its predecessors whilst also delivering something new and in turn helping to remind modern viewers that vampires are monsters and should be feared as such.
The plot of Nosferatu is based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, the 1922 silent version changed the title and character names because of copyright reasons. Since then, Nosferatu has grown into its’ own separate entity within the vampire genre; aided by the first adaptation of Murnau’s version titled Nosferatu the Vampyre directed by Werner Herzog and released in 1979.
Continue readingThis film features in every Christmas pub quiz and almost always ranks top on lists of the best Christmas films. Despite having been released nearly 80 years ago (yes, that is correct), this beloved film remains a household favourite and I truly do not understand why.
I am of course talking about It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). Perhaps it’s because I didn’t grow up watching this film every year therefore nostalgia is not an influential factor for me. Many of us love films for their nostalgic value, not necessarily because they are good films. I presume this has to be the case for It’s a Wonderful Life, because I fail to fathom how this film can be so beloved and widely renowned otherwise.
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